mayday (m'aidez) our monitors are sick

[David Houlder]

Tom...
> 
> We have an epidemic of monitors failing.
 
> I've only lost the use of x0 but other people have lost
> x1 and x2 (we'll run out soon!.
 
> We have been using GRASS for ages and this has only just
> started, anybody got any bright ideas?

I don't suppose you're using the Solaris message-queue version of
the xdriver? If so, the problem is that the message queues don't always get
deleted, especially, I think, when you clobber the plot window from the
window manager rather than using d.mon stop= .


To fix, use the unix ipcs and ipcrm commands. See man pages.  You
probably have to be root. Or reboot, but thats a less than elegant
approach. BTW, as others have reported, the ye olde fifo version workd
quite well under Sol 2.3 and 2.4.

If you're not using the message queue version, I dunno. Check the
permissions on the fifos maybe.


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