> Can someone please give me a run-down on the information provided by d.mon -L?
> It gives monitor status as 'running', not running', 'in use', and '??'. The
> first 2 categories are straightforward, but the last 2 I am having difficulty
> in fathoming. Worse, the command occasionally hangs and freezes up the
> keyboard, even when all monitors look to be OK. Can anybody give me a clue
> about what is going on? Release 4.0, nb, with Sparcs as X terminals.
> -- 
> Conn V Copas
> 
If a monitor is in use, it means that someone has started it and that a 
process is currently running. This message may also occur if you or someone
else made an illegal exit while a monitor of that name was running. The `??'
message obviously means that GRASS doesn't know what the status of the 
monitor is. This also occurs after crashes and illegal exits.

If a monitor is `in use' or `??' you may try to capture it by issuing the
d.mon release= or d.mon unlock= commands (that is, after checking that 
somebody else isn't using that monitor). If that fails, you might try
killing the processes for these monitors. If that fails, shutdown and
reboot.

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