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 > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > >_________ 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 -- Nikos Alexandris . Department of Remote Sensing & Landscape Information Systems Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg . Tel. +49 (0) 761 203 3697 / Fax. +49 (0) 761 203 3701 / Skype: Nikos.Alexandris . Address: Tennenbacher str. 4, D-79106 Freiburg i. Br., Germany
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