d.mon problem

[grass at genie.saff.utah.edu]

I'm reading this late so I don't know if its answered.

First, I had to limit my colors to 256 because I don't have the Motif
support yet. Try that, I was getting the same errors.

Jason Carey
Snow Hydrology
University of Utah

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Thomas Foster wrote:

> Thanks for your response.   I'm afraid that it didn't work though.    I
> changed the permissions on the /usr/grass/locks directory and got the same
> error (see below).    Does it matter that there is no
> /usr/grass/locks/foster/mon.* files.  there isn't even  a
> /usr/grass/locks/foster in the /usr/grass/locks directory only a
> /usr/grass/locks/topquark file... ?   
> 
> 
> >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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