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. Hope this helps 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 > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ >_________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
