trouble starting monitors in grass5

[Bernhard Sturm]

Hi Bob

This is the same thing I had. But no panic. You only have to generate the
lock directory for your machine:

Login as root.

1. Create a locks directory (this directory must have the name of your
machine, if in doubt ask with: uname -n)

2. cd usr/local/grass5/locks
    mkdir nameofyourmachine
    chmod ugo+wrx nameofyourmachine

I hope this solves your problems. BTW I really enjoy my *new* grass 5... :-D

Cheers
Bernhard Sturm

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>Gentlefolk,
>
> 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.
>
> ???
>
> Many thanks.
>
>Bob Stanfield
>Tinicum EAC Vice-Chair
>29 Ledge Lane
>Pipersville, PA 18947
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>