installation problems on Sun 4

[Hendrik K. Meij]

'Michael Zajac'
> 
> We've been trying to get grass 4.0 running on a Sun4 server, with several
> Sparcs as terminals.  The basic program is running, but there are some
> problems.  Can anyone offer some advice?
> 
> Colour tables will not display correctly on the (8-bit) Sparcs.  When I
> apply a grey-scale colourtable to an image it appears in two strange yellow
> and green colours in d.display.
> 
> We are having some permission problems.  I have a data set in my home
> directory.  Others members of my group have been unable to access those
> files with grass, even though they have full UNIX permission and I turned
> on the grass permission for that data set.
> 
> When trying to install RIM a very large number of messages in the form
> "find: cannot chdir to ./home/u5/umhaugh0: Permission denied" are
> generated.
> 
> I also get an error when trying to use the d.display command using MacX on
> a macintosh as an x-server.  The error message reads:
>         Xerror of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>         Major opcode of failed request:  78 (X_CreateColormap)
>         Serial number of failed request:  13
> 
> I am not a UNIX wizard, and the local one has run out of patience with this
> installation, so I would appreciate any wisdom you may be able to offer.
> --
> Michael Zajac (Dept of Landscape Architecture)
> University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
> phone:  (204) 474 6449
> 
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