d.mon problem

[Malcolm Williamson]

Thomas,
check that permissions for /usr/grass/locks and any subdirectories is 666:
	chmod -R 666 /usr/grass/locks

Should do the trick. Good luck,
	-Malcolm Williamson

 
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Thomas Foster wrote:

> I have recently installed Grass 4.15 running on Linux and I was trying to
> display a monitor with d.mon.   At first I got an error saying to change the
> permissions in the /usr/grass/dev/fifo.* files.   I did, then I got the
> following error:
> 
> Graphics driver [x1] started
> Error - Could not complete locking process for monitor <x1>.
> Lock file is /usr/grass/locks/foster/mon.49158
> Problem selecting x1.  will try once more
> Error - Could not complete locking process for monitor <x1>.
> Lock file is /usr/grass/locks/foster/mon.49158
> 
> and then a monitor screen pops up but I can't do anything with it and d.mon
> says that there are no monitors running.     
> 
> What am I doing wrong.   I am new to Grass.   I read the manual on d.mon but
> it didn't tell me anything about Lock files.   Any help would be
> appreciated.  Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
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