[GRASSLIST:1792] Re: GRASS Mac OS X -- no d.mon

[Glynn Clements]

otter wrote:

> In the process of installing GRASS on Mac OS X . . . GRASS is now 
> running in an xterm window (Xtools), but have run into the following 
> problem:
> 
> When try to assign a monitor device, I get the following:
> 
> <PERMANENT> in Location <spearfish>
> GRASS 5.0beta11 > d.mon start=x2
> Sorry, </usr/local/grass5/dev/fifo.3a> not available
> Have GRASS adminstrator check etc/monitorcap file
> Can't stat /usr/local/grass5/dev/fifo.3a
> Problem selecting x2. Will try once more
> Can't stat /usr/local/grass5/dev/fifo.3a
> 
> get same result for other values x3,x4, etc.
> 
> checking status with d.mon -L shows all displays as ??.
> 
> Following up, the error message, the /usr/local/grass5/dev directory is 
> empty.

The "configure" script should have output either:

	checking for XDriver... socket
or
	checking for XDriver... fifo

Do you recall which? Did you explicitly specify either --with-socket
or --with-fifo to configure? It should use sockets by default, but the
above message shouldn't occur when using sockets.

Also, "make install" should have installed the create_fifos.sh script,
from
	<grass-source-dir>/src/scripts/shells/create_fifos.sh

in the dev directory. However, you should be able to run it from the
source directory, with the GRASS installation root as an argument. 
E.g.

	cd <grass-source-dir>/src/scripts/shells/
	sh ./create_fifos.sh /usr/local/grass5

(where <grass-source-dir> represents the topmost directory of the
GRASS source code).

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>