[GRASS-user] .gislock

Hi,
A GRASS data set was sent to me - however, I am unable to open any of the mapsets in either grass6.4 or grass7 due to the following error message:

Starting GRASS …
/GRASSsf/PERMANENT/.gislock: Permission denied

ERROR: /Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/lock: Unable to properly access /GRASSsf/PERMANENT/.gislock

I also tried to create a new mapset in the GRASSsf dataset but get this error:
Unable to create new mapset: [Errro 13] Permission denied

I tried changing permissions on .gislock, i.e.
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 jchoate staff 4 Nov 15 2013 .gislock

however - I still can not open anything.
Can anyone advise how to fix this so I can access this dataset/mapsets?
thank you,
Janet

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Tague Team Lab Manager
1005 Bren Hall
UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA.

On Sun, 26 Jul 2020, Janet Choate wrote:

Starting GRASS ...
/GRASSsf/PERMANENT/.gislock: Permission denied

ERROR: /Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/lock: Unable to
properly access /GRASSsf/PERMANENT/.gislock

Janet,

Did you try removing it (or, at least, renaming it to another, inocuous
name?)

Rich

pirmd., 2020. g. 27. jūl., plkst. 05:52 — lietotājs Janet Choate
(<jsc.eco@gmail.com>) rakstīja:

I tried changing permissions on .gislock, i.e.
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 jchoate staff 4 Nov 15 2013 .gislock

Check permissions of folder containing .gislock file. Are you the
owner of that folder? Does it have rwx for your user?

If it doesn't help, please provide tested GRASS 7 version and install
method (self compiled, packages, ...).

Good luck,
Māris.