[GRASS-user] Lock problem

On Ubuntu Feisty, default GRASS6.0.2, was working fine.

Following http://les-ejk.cz/ubuntu/ I upgraded to GRASS6.2

I worked fine once, but later on invoking it gave following problem:

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LOCATION_NAME not set.
/usr/lib/grass/etc/init.sh:573:/usr/lib/grass/etc/lock: permission
denied
Unable to properly access ///.gislock
-------------

In my own wisdom(?) I deleted lock file and created with 777
permission. This did not solve problem.

I uninstalled GRASS6.2, and installed GRASS6.0.2 from default Ubuntu
repositories, but found it still gives lock problem.

How to get rid of this LOCKED problem.

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Hardeep Singh Rai wrote:

On Ubuntu Feisty, default GRASS6.0.2, was working fine.

Following http://les-ejk.cz/ubuntu/ I upgraded to GRASS6.2

I worked fine once, but later on invoking it gave following problem:

----------
LOCATION_NAME not set.
/usr/lib/grass/etc/init.sh:573:/usr/lib/grass/etc/lock: permission
denied
Unable to properly access ///.gislock
-------------

In my own wisdom(?) I deleted lock file and created with 777
permission. This did not solve problem.

I uninstalled GRASS6.2, and installed GRASS6.0.2 from default Ubuntu
repositories, but found it still gives lock problem.

How to get rid of this LOCKED problem.

--
H.S.Rai

Is it possible that you tried to install 64bit binaries on a 32bit machine?

Please post the results of:
uname -a
file /usr/lib/grass/etc/lock

Markus
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This also can happen if you made a location, set GRASS to point at that
location, then deleted the location from the OS.

Check in your ~/.grassrc6 file to see if it is pointing to a location and or
mapset that doesn't exist. If so, you can set it to a valid location/mapset
or simply delete the location and mapset lines (make sure that you get rid
of any empty lines too.)

Michael

On 7/8/07 7:35 PM, "Hardeep Singh Rai" <hardeep@eml.cc> wrote:

On Ubuntu Feisty, default GRASS6.0.2, was working fine.

Following http://les-ejk.cz/ubuntu/ I upgraded to GRASS6.2

I worked fine once, but later on invoking it gave following problem:

----------
LOCATION_NAME not set.
/usr/lib/grass/etc/init.sh:573:/usr/lib/grass/etc/lock: permission
denied
Unable to properly access ///.gislock
-------------

In my own wisdom(?) I deleted lock file and created with 777
permission. This did not solve problem.

I uninstalled GRASS6.2, and installed GRASS6.0.2 from default Ubuntu
repositories, but found it still gives lock problem.

How to get rid of this LOCKED problem.

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Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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On 7/9/07, Markus Neteler <neteler@itc.it> wrote:

Is it possible that you tried to install 64bit binaries on a 32bit machine?

It may be otherway round, trying to run 32bit application on 64bit OS.

I am thankful to many and good responses to my problem. However, I
could not verify that, as my impatient colleague reinstalled OS on
that PC. However using same procedure GRASS is working fine on 17 PCs.
I was trying to setup a lab.

Once again thanks to all who tried to help me. Your answer will surely
help me or other readers in similar situation.

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H.S.Rai