more mayday (m'aidez) our monitors are sick

Thanks to all who replied to my message. As far as I know we
are still using the fifo version of GRASS. We are running
grass (not xgrass) on solaris2.3. The ipcs -aq command returned

hawaii% ipcs -aq
IPC status from <running system> as of Fri Mar 10 09:49:01 1995
Message Queue facility not in system.
hawaii%

I followed David Houlders second suggestion of rebooting and that
seems to have done the trick, some nuts require sledge hammers
I guess (particularly with my level of unix expertise!)

I'm still curious as to why this "epidemic" started.

Thanks again

Tom :sunglasses:

We have seen these type of problems occassionaly. Usually it is
caused by the graphics monitor while the mouse is active; ie. while
using d.what.rast or some other mouse command. Our only solution
also has been to reboot the machine. This has happened to us
on 3 different platforms: 1)AT&T SYS V Rel 3.2.x Unix on 386/486
2)Sun Sparc stations with SunOS 4.1.x 3)Unixware 1.x on 486.

Ken Sibley
USDA-NRCS/NCG "Hell, if you understand everything I say,
ksibley@ncg.nrcs.usda.gov you'd be me!" - Miles Davis