locking mechanism on monitor

[Malcolm Williamson]

Hi, Teresa
Try removing the locking file. Also, do a "ps -ef | grep x0" to make sure 
that nothing is still trying to run that monitor. That _should_ take 
care of the problem, at least for  now!
	-Malcolm Williamson

 On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Teresa Salyer 
wrote:

> Help.   I was working in grass and went to display a raster map and my
> monitor would not respond giving me the following message:
> 
> locking mechanism failed
> lock file  <where located>.
> 
>  That lock file was empty.  I rebooted my computer and still no response
> from x0 monitor. What happened ???  I can bring up another monitor x1
> but my x0 will not respond.
> 
> Is there a way to fix this problem.  Thanks for your help .
> 
> Teresa Salyer <salyer at tiaer.tarleton.edu>
> -- 
> Teresa Salyer
> TIAER
> Tarleton State University
>