This monitorcap file does not belong with the version of GRASS you say you downloaded ( grass6.1.cvs-i686-pc-linux-gnu-25_02_2006). It should look different.
This makes me think that there is some kind of problem with your source download or another issue with mixed versions and files.
I suggest you do a completely clean download of GRASS and a make clean before you compile.
Michael
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
From: Vishal Mehta vishalm1975@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:02:16 +0530
To: Michael Barton michael.barton@asu.edu
Cc: “Ing.Peter Misovic” peter.misovic@gmail.com, Multiple recipients of list GRASSLIST@baylor.edu
Subject: Re: problems with GIS managerRe: GRASS 6.1cvs gis.m error
Hi Mike,
After entering grass, i saw that The grassrc6 file did have “MONITOR: X1” - which i deleted. I also checked the monitorcap file, which did not have duplicates.
I’m still getting the same errors. copied below is the monitorcap file:
any other suggestions? thanks much for your reply…- vishal
Monitorcap file: describes the monitors available to your
users. Fields:
driver name :
actual program name :
short description presented to users :
the names of two fifo files for interprocess communication :
full pathname of tty from which device must be started (if any) :
message user gets if driver is started from wrong tty
x0:driver/XDRIVER:X-windows graphics display:
dev/fifo.1a dev/fifo.1b
::any terminal
x1:driver/XDRIVER:X-windows graphics display:
dev/fifo.2a dev/fifo.2b
::any terminal
x2:driver/XDRIVER:X-windows graphics display:
dev/fifo.3a dev/fifo.3b
::any terminal
x3:driver/XDRIVER:X-windows graphics display:
dev/fifo.4a dev/fifo.4b
::any terminal
x4:driver/XDRIVER:X-windows graphics display:
dev/fifo.5a dev/fifo.5b
::any terminal
x5:driver/XDRIVER:X-windows graphics display:
dev/fifo.6a dev/fifo.6b
::any terminal
x6:driver/XDRIVER:X-windows graphics display:
dev/fifo.7a dev/fifo.7b
::any terminal
CELL:driver/CELL:Create GRASS Raster File:
dev/fifo.8a dev/fifo.8b
::any terminal
#sunview:driver/SUNVIEW:Sun graphics display: \
dev/fifo.9a dev/fifo.9b \
::any terminal
#4105:driver/4105:Tektronix 4105: \
dev/fifo.10a dev/fifo.10b \
::any terminal
#iris:driver/IRIS:Silicon Graphics IRIS Workstation: \
dev/fifo.11a dev/fifo.11b \
::any terminal
#sun:driver/SUNCORE:Sun Core graphis display: \
dev/fifo.12a dev/fifo.12b \
::any terminal
#IGRAPH:driver/IGRAPH:Intergraph graphics display: \
dev/fifo.13a dev/fifo.13b \
::any terminal
#mass:driver/MASS:Masscomp graphics display: \
dev/fifo.14a dev/fifo.14b \
::any terminal
PNG:driver/PNG:Create PNG Map:
dev/fifo.16a dev/fifo.16b
::any terminal
On 2/26/06, Michael Barton michael.barton@asu.edu wrote:
Vishal,
This is a different issue from what Peter reported. It sounds like there is a problem with your installation. I’d start by looking at the .grassrc6 file in your home directory. If there is a line that specifies a monitor to start, delete it. Next I’d look at the monitorcap file that should be in $GISBASE/etc/.
See if you have one. If you do, look at it with a text editor. It should have one line for each potential display monitor it can open. There should not be any duplicates. I’ve had duplicates show up in a Mac build recently.
In a strange, unrelated problem (but then again, maybe not), that has affected a student in my lab who updated to the newest Cygwin binary. Whenever he starts GRASS, it opens a saved workspace file even though he doesn’t explicitly instruct it to do so.
Michael
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
From: Vishal Mehta vishalm1975@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:07:43 +0530
To: Michael Barton michael.barton@asu.edu
Cc: “Ing.Peter Misovic” peter.misovic@gmail.com, Multiple recipients of list < GRASSLIST@baylor.edu>
Subject: Re: problems with GIS managerRe: GRASS 6.1cvs gis.m error
Hi,
i’ve been trying to install GRASS, on my Ubunty Hoary distribution, the GRASS distribution Generic GNU/Linux (ia32) http://grass.itc.it/grass61/binary/linux/snapshot/ (generated weekly):
I downloaded grass6.1.cvs-i686-pc-linux-gnu-25_02_2006
but am having problems as soon as i ‘enter GRASS’. I’ve tried updating the scripts you mention in the last email from your website but still get the same error
On the command window i get:
Could not execute monitor: No such file or directory
No socket to connect to for monitor .
Problem selecting x3. Will try once more
and the error log in the GIS Manager is:
child process exited abnormally
while executing
“exec – d.mon start=x3 >@ stdout 2>@ stderr”
(“eval” body line 1)
invoked from within
“eval exec – $cmd $args >@ stdout 2>@ stderr”
(procedure “run” line 2)
invoked from within
“run “d.mon start=$mon””
invoked from within
“if ![catch {open “|d.mon -L” r} input] {
while {[gets $input line] >= 0} {
if {[regexp -nocase “$mon.*not running” $line]} {
r…”
(procedure “Dm::displmon” line 3)
invoked from within
“Dm::displmon x3”
invoked from within
“.mainframe.frame.pw1.f0.frame.rb3 invoke”
(“uplevel” body line 1)
invoked from within
“uplevel #0 [list $w $cmd]”
(procedure “tk::CheckRadioInvoke” line 3)
invoked from within
“tk::CheckRadioInvoke .mainframe.frame.pw1.f0.frame.rb3”
(command bound to event)
PLease help!
vishal
On 2/26/06, Michael Barton michael.Sbarton@asu.edu wrote:
The new GIS Manager (gis.m) is in beta testing and I’ve been fixing bugs
regularly.
Please update to the most current version (24 February 2006). You can get
this by updating from the cvs and recompiling or by getting the package off
my website http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/files/grass_gismgr http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/files/grass_gismgr
…and replacing the files in $GISBASE/etc/gm with those in the package you
download.
Michael
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
From: “Ing.Peter Misovic” < peter.misovic@gmail.com mailto:peter.misovic@gmail.com >
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:34:57 +0100
To: GRASSLIST GRASSLIST@baylor.edu
Subject: [GRASSLIST:10572] GRASS 6.1cvs gis.m error
Dear all
I’d like to ask you for help with gis.m Grass manager. Manager is not
starting properly 'cause it is crashing with following error :
GRASS 6.1.cvs (spearfish)
> gis.m
PNG: GRASS_TRUECOLOR status: TRUE
PNG: collecting to file: dispmon_1.ppm,
GRASS_WIDTH=640, GRASS_HEIGHT=482
Graphics driver [gism] started
ERROR: PNG: couldn’t open output file dispmon_1.ppm
ERROR eof from graphics driver.
And if I press Enter in error window, gis.m starts, but no work is
possible at all. My Grass version is
grass-6.1.cvs_src_snapshot_2006_02_20 .
Thank you for your help,
Peter Misovic