Fw: [winGRASS] winGRASS digest, Vol 1 #345 - 1 msg

[David Finlayson]

I didn't realize there was any concept of "root" in cygwin. At least
not if your Windows account has Administrator privledges. I have a
single-user XP-Pro computer w/ Cygwin and have not had problems with
winGRASS.

On 8/16/05, Natalie O'Toole <notoole at mtroyal.ca> wrote:
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> Hi Bruce, 
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> I'm wondering what the difference is between my username and root. I have administrative privileges on my computer. Also, would you know how to login as root and fix or set the privileges I need? 
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> Hi Bruce, 
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> I tried deleting the gislock file- but that did not solve the problem. 
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> I'll try this on my machine upstairs, and see if it works! 
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> ----- Forwarded by Natalie O'Toole/Admin/MRC on 15/08/2005 04:10 PM ----- 
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> Subject Re: [winGRASS] winGRASS digest, Vol 1 #345 - 1 msg 
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> I have seen this problem before too. There is a file called '.gislock' that GRASS uses to limit the user to one session. If for some reason the file is left over from the last session, either becuase it crashed last time, or file permissions are different, GRASS will not run. You need to have correct file permissions for the file /usr/local/share/grassdata/spearfish60/user1/.gislock, just try to delete first. You should be able to login as root on cygwin and delete. Try GRASS again as yourself, and as root if you need to. It might be that you also need permissions for your user name here too. You can fix that when you are logged in as root too. Hope this helps.
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>  From: Natalie O'Toole <notoole at mtroyal.ca>
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>  Subject: [winGRASS] winGRASS digest, Vol 1 #345 - 1 msg
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>  I've just installed GRASS 6.0 on a Windows XP operating system. Everything 
>  works fine until I go to the GRASS6.0.bat- select my Spearfish data set. 
>  Then, GRASS just waits a while and then I get the following error message:
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>  //usr/local/share/grassdata/spearfish60/user1/.gislock: Permission denied
>  ERROR: /usr/local/grass6.0.cvs-i686-pc-cygwin-16_02_2005/etc/lock:
>  notoole is currently running GRASS in selected mapset. Concurrent use not 
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>   and then GRASS6.0 closes. Any ideas on what might be the problem, or a 
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>  Thanks,
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>  Natalie
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