Re: [GRASS-user] Permission denied (again!)

2008-02-07 Thread Glynn Clements
Nikos Alexandris wrote: Isn't there a clean solution for this? It's really annoying... I've been reading manuals, permissions on files and directories, sticky bits, et.c. grass62 just keeps complaining... and I don't want to change the /tmp permissions which might be dangerous. Can't

Re: [GRASS-user] Permission denied (again!)

2008-02-06 Thread Nikos Alexandris
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

Re: [GRASS-user] Permission denied (again!)

2008-02-06 Thread Paul Kelly
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Nikos Alexandris wrote: [...] 2. Launching grass63 (release fetched with svn, configured-compiled-installed) does not have any problems. Is that not a good solution to your problems then? The location creation through the start-up GUI was all very experimental prior to

Re: [GRASS-user] Permission denied (again!)

2008-02-05 Thread Jachym Cepicky
Hi, sure, you have right permissions on grassdata ? what does ls -lh /path/to/grassdata/parent/dir say? jachym Nikos Alexandris píše v Út 05. 02. 2008 v 12:17 +0100: Hi list! I shifted from Ubuntu 7.10 32-bit to 64-bit and all of a sudden I have a very annoying problem when using

Re: [GRASS-user] Permission denied (again!)

2008-02-05 Thread nikos . alexandris
Hi! 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

Re: [GRASS-user] Permission denied (again!)

2008-02-05 Thread Nikos Alexandris
O.K. 1. grass -gui (or grass62 -gui) does not allow me to create a new LOCATION anywhere *using ESPG just ends up with: WARNING: Please restart GRASS (closint it for you now). *using Georeferenced file ends up with: /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator: to set an icon, please use

Re: [GRASS-user] Permission denied (again!)

2008-02-05 Thread Hamish
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

Re: [GRASS-user] Permission denied (again!)

2008-02-05 Thread Frank Broniewski
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.