trouble starting monitors in grass5

[Markus Neteler]

> 	I have a problem with my new grass5 installation. 
> 
> 	The messages from last week about <chmod 0666> allowed the starting of
> of the monitors.
> 
> 	Now I can select a monitor with no messages. However, when I try to 
> display a vector file I get the message:
> 
> No graphics monitor has been selected for output.
> Please run "d.mon" to select a graphics monitor.
> 
> 	1) There is a screen x0. 
> 
> 	2) There are no files under the ..../grass5/locks/*/ directories.
> 
> 	???
Hi Bob,

there needs to be a subdirectory named as your machine (get that
with uname -n). 

login: root
cd grass5/locks
mkdir <name_of_machine>
cd ..
chmod -R 1777 locks/

Hope this helps

  Markus