[GRASS-user] Create location fails in docker

[Margherita Di Leo]

[RESOLVED]

Simply the docker machine was deployed with changes I was unaware of. Sorry
for the noise and thank you so much for the brainstorming.

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 2:34 PM Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Moritz,
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:49 AM Moritz Lennert <
> mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>
>> Hi Madi,
>>
>> Am 30.09.2021 09:46 schrieb Margherita Di Leo:
>> >
>> >> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/.grass7'
>> >
>> > What does this error message mean? Why is it trying to write in the
>> > /.grass7 folder ?
>>
>> Whenever you launch GRASS GIS with the grass startup script, it writes
>> the chosen Gisdbase/Location/Mapset info into .grass7/rc. If you launch
>> GRASS GIS for the first time, it first creates the directory .grass7
>> which is the part that fails with a permission error.
>>
>> But isn't .grass7/rc folder supposed to be written in the home directory?
> In my docker image I set the user and a home directory is created for it...
>
>
>> I'm no Docker expert at all, but I think you have to explicitly run the
>> container with parameters indicating the devices one can access from
>> within.
>>
>
> I'm trying to figure... I set a workdir and give full permissions to the
> user to it, but still the .grass7 folder is not written there nor in the
> home. Is there a way to "force" the grass configuration files to be written
> somewhere else?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> --
> Margherita Di Leo
>


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