installation prob

[Darrell McCauley]

Rick L. Hammer (rick at rsgis3.tamu.edu ) writes on 23 Nov 92:

>I have just compiled GRASS 4.0 on a Sun Sparc2.  The compilation under GISGEN
>produced no errors.  But I am having problems when I start Grass.  
>
>Specifically I have 2 problems:
>
>1. When I type grass4.0 the initial greeting screen comes up ok, but when I press
>"escape" to accept the database locations the following screen information comes
>up totally unformatted on the screen--maybe it's a terminal emulation problem.
>Then when I exit grass my system prompt returns--left justified in the window. But,
>as I enter commands at the prompt and press return the prompt begins walking across
>the screen like this:
>
>rick at rsgis3>  <return>
>                rick at rsgis3>   <return>
>                                  rick at rsgis3>  .....etc

I assume you are using some sort of shelltool, commandtool, or other
Sun-ism. If you have xterm, use it instead.

>2. Problem two involves d.mon.  I get the following error message:
>
>	Error:  could not execute '/usr6/local3/grass4.0/sun4/driver/SUNVIEW'
>	Error - Could not complete locking process for monitor <sunview>
>	Lock file is /usr6/local3/grass4.0/sun4/locks/rsgis3/rsgis3:0/sunview
>	Problem selecting sunview. Will try once more
>I looked in the ./sun4/driver directory for 'SUNVIEW' and found no files.  I am
>assuming that the drivers get placed there as a result of running GISGEN.  Before
>running GISGEN I did edit 'lists/local' file.

why do you want to run the sunview driver? you have openwin don't you?
if so, use the X window driver.

>Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>Rick Hammer
>Remote Sensing/GIS Lab
>Department of Forest Science
>Texas A&M Unversity
>rick at rsgis3.tamu.edu

--Darrell McCauley