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.
In the /usr/local/grass5/etc directory there are both a monitorcap and a monitorcap.orig file (which appear to be identical).
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).