sudo chown -R yourusername /path/to/your/grassdb

On Sep 12, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Kurt Springs wrote:

> How would one go about transferring ownership?
> 
> Kurt
> On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> It sure looks like permissions are the problem here. The GUI needs to write 
>> things to your GIS Database and to temp files. If you are not the owner, 
>> there could be problems.
>> 
>> Michael
>> ____________________
>> C. Michael Barton
>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity 
>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Arizona State University
>> 
>> voice:       480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC)
>> fax:          480-965-7671 (SHESC),  480-727-0709 (CSDC)
>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:12 AM, <grass-user-requ...@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:21:05 -0400
>>> From: Kurt Springs <ferret_b...@mac.com>
>>> Subject: [GRASS-user] Problem after Installing OS X 10.7
>>> To: grass-user@lists.osgeo.org
>>> Message-ID: <b87ef884-61e7-4bd9-a790-0c4e80844...@mac.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
>>> 
>>> Hi Folks,
>>> 
>>> I finally installed OS X 10.7.1.  Because I had a corruption with Java I 
>>> did a clean install.  I?ve been gradually loading things back in. I ran 
>>> into trouble when I got to GRASS.  I have William Kyngebure?s 6.4.1-5.  I 
>>> launched it for the first time and got the following in Terminal:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ____
>>>        __________  ___   __________    _______________
>>>       / ____/ __ \/   | / ___/ ___/   / ____/  _/ ___/
>>>      / / __/ /_/ / /| | \__ \\_  \   / / __ / / \__ \ 
>>>     / /_/ / _, _/ ___ |___/ /__/ /  / /_/ // / ___/ / 
>>>     \____/_/ |_/_/  |_/____/____/   \____/___//____/  
>>> 
>>> Welcome to GRASS 6.4.1 (2011) 
>>> GRASS homepage:                          http://grass.osgeo.org/
>>> This version running thru:               Bash Shell (/bin/bash)
>>> Help is available with the command:      g.manual -i
>>> See the licence terms with:              g.version -c
>>> If required, restart the GUI with:       g.gui wxpython
>>> When ready to quit enter:                exit
>>> 
>>> GRASS 6.4.1 (NH-State_Plane):~ > ERROR: MAPSET PERMANENT - permission denied
>>> ERROR: MAPSET PERMANENT - permission denied
>>> 2011-09-10 18:49:22.524 Python[1232:e0f] CFURLCreateWithString was passed 
>>> this invalid URL string: 
>>> '/System/Library/CoreServices/CommonCocoaPanels.bundle' (a file system path 
>>> instead of an URL string). The URL created will not work with most file URL 
>>> functions. CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath or 
>>> CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPathRelativeToBase should be used instead.
>>> 
>>> GRASS 6.4.1 (NH-State_Plane):~ > exit
>>> exit
>>> /Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/Init.sh: line 899:  1232 
>>> Killed: 9               "$GRASS_PYTHON" "$GISBASE/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py"
>>> 
>>> Closing monitors ...
>>> ERROR: MAPSET PERMANENT - permission denied
>>> Closing open gis.m sessions.....
>>> Cleaning up temporary files ...
>>> ERROR: MAPSET PERMANENT - permission denied
>>> Done.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Goodbye from GRASS GIS
>>> 
>>> logout
>>> 
>>> [Process completed]
>>> '/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/grass.sh'; exit
>>> Last login: Sat Sep 10 18:48:20 on ttys000
>>> kurt-springss-mac-pro:~ kurtsprings$ 
>>> '/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/grass.sh'; exit
>>> Rebuilding Addon HTML manual pages index...
>>> Rebuilding Addon menu...
>>> 2011-09-10 19:01:52.382 osascript[1570:707] Error loading 
>>> /Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit 
>>> Types: dlopen(/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit 
>>> Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types, 262): no suitable image found.  
>>> Did find:
>>>     /Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe 
>>> Unit Types: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
>>> osascript: OpenScripting.framework - scripting addition 
>>> "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax" declares no loadable 
>>> handlers.
>>> Python 2.6.6 found.
>>> Cleaning up temporary files ...
>>> Starting GRASS ...
>>> ERROR: MAPSET PERMANENT - permission denied
>>> 2011-09-10 19:01:56.428 Python[1602:e0f] CFURLCreateWithString was passed 
>>> this invalid URL string: 
>>> '/System/Library/CoreServices/CommonCocoaPanels.bundle' (a file system path 
>>> instead of an URL string). The URL created will not work with most file URL 
>>> functions. CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath or 
>>> CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPathRelativeToBase should be used instead.
>>> ____
>>> 
>>> I?ve loaded the frame works.  Permissions were an issue as I moved things 
>>> From time machine to a User with an (old) tag and ported them to my new 
>>> user file.  I think  that was solved.  Everything I?ve checked gives my new 
>>> User Read and Write permission.  
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts.
>>> 
>>> Kurt
>>> 
>> 
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