In an E-mail message, DUNN  JEREMY SIMON wrote:
> 
> Good Afternoon,
> 
> I'm trying to open a monitor window in grass4.1 and run into this error
> 
> d.mon start=x1
> Graphics driver [x1] started
> Error - Could not complete locking process for monitor <x1>.
> Lock file is /proj/ice/MODELS/Grass.alpha/axp/locks/polarbear/mon.883439
> Problem selecting x1. Will try once more
> Error - Could not complete locking process for monitor <x1>.
> Lock file is /proj/ice/MODELS/Grass.alpha/axp/locks/polarbear/mon.883439
> 
> If I try and open another window say x2 I don't have a porblem. I', interested
> to know what the locking process is looking for and needs to allow x1 to 
> open. This error occured a couple of days ago x1 was previously running error
> free. I think it occured because I quit grass and then killed the window by 
> closing from the window manager. 
> 

Jeremy,

Go to your /proj/ice/MODELS/Grass.alpha/axp/locks directory and delete
everything related to you  underneath it.  Grass writes a machine name and 
then monitor ID of some sort under it (depending on whether you were running
locally or remotely) when you start a monitor.

I don't know why you had a locking problem though for just x1.  Perhaps
someone else already was using that monitor and had it locked.

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