[GRASS-user] Permission denied (again!)

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 08:13 +0100, Frank Broniewski wrote:
> I just want to confirm this 'behavior' with GRASS installed from Repositories 
> on a Ubuntu 7.10 machine. We had the same error recently.
> 
> GRASS had been installed and started with the -gui parameter. Creating a 
> location within the homefolder fails for the same reasons already given 
> below.
> 
> However we were able to create a new location with the text based version of 
> GRASS, but some of the gis.m modules (like the map window) cannot be used. As 
> far as I remember, it gives some errors about region extend not being able to 
> read. I would have to ask my colleague for details.
> 
> Nearly two years back, I had the same problem and I found some kind of 
> solution. I posted this on the list in year 2006. You can find the according 
> threads here: 
> http://www.nabble.com/-GRASS-user--Can't-create-location-td5691835.html
> 
> It had something to do with write permissions on the tmp directory where GRASS 
> creates the location.

YES... that's it!

Sorry for not reading this before.. I just replied to Hamish.

Ohhhhhhh... it's annoying :-|

Things like that happen ONLY when they should not... ! It's the deamon
that brakes things for which you are absolutely sure that work ;-) Or...
it's just our selective memory, emphasizing more on negative experiences
so we forget the positive one's.




> 
> Hope this helps

I am checking it right away.

> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 06 February 2008 04:13:15 Hamish wrote:
> > nikos.alexandris wrote:
> > > Thanks for the quick reply. I need it cause we try to
> > > explore GRASS with a couple of friends and we got stuck on that(!)
> > >
> > > First of all:
> > > >grass
> > >
> > > Cleaning up temporary files.....
> > > Starting GRASS ...
> > > ERROR: MAPSET PERMANENT - permission denied
> > >
> > > Then any other attempt to create a LOCATION ends-up with
> > > exiting GRASS saying to re-log and find the newly created LOCATION...
> > > which is not there of course.
> > >
> > > I try to edit manually .grassrc6 but still no luck with the
> > > LOCATION creation.
> >
> > if data was copied from a CD make sure that the GRASS database,
> > locations, etc. have been given back write permissions, recursively.
> > (the filesystem cares)
> >
> > also check that the current user owns the mapset you are trying to
> > load. (by default GRASS lets you read from anyone mapset but only you
> > can write to your own)
> >
> > for the file system test try going to where you are trying to make the
> > new location and create a new directory, files, etc. That is all GRASS
> > is trying to do and if you can do that as a normal user, and the same
> > user as starts grass6, GRASS should be able to it as well.
> >
> >
> > Also follow up that x-terminal-emulator error. Is this Ubuntu or
> > Debian?
> > What version(s) of OS & GRASS?
> >
> > ls -l /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
> > ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator
> >
> >
> > Hamish
> >
> >
> >
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