[GRASS-user] unable to open GRASS mapset under Q-GIS 1.6

[Otto Dassau]

Hi Nils,

there might be a .gislock file on the mapset level you want to work with that
wasn't removed for some reason. Try to find that file and remove it. 

hth
 Otto

Am Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:31:58 +0200
schrieb Niels Thevs <thevs at uni-greifswald.de>:

> Dear all,
> 
> I want to digitize shapefiles in Q-GIS based on raster layers in a GRASS 
> mapset. But, Q-GIS always complains that the mapset canno be opened, 
> because it is used by another programme. I tried on several computers, 
> but I only was able to open a GRASS mapset under Q-GIS on a computer, 
> where I never started GRASS before. How could I solve this problem. I 
> work under Windows XP with Q-GIS 1.6.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Niels