[KLUG Members] GnuCash Lock Issue

greenproc greenproc at charter.net
Mon Jan 30 13:29:53 EST 2006


Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I get this error message when opening my GnuCash file:
> 
>       GnuCash could not obtain the lock for [file]. That database may be
> in use by another user, in which case 
>       you should not open the database.
> 
>       What would you like to do?
> 
> Clearly not a problem for me, as I'm the only user on this computer. But
> it would be nice to know why this happens (no other copies of GnuCash
> open) and how to deal with it. Is this a bug? I believe I saved the file
> and exited GnuCash properly the last time.

lsof | grep <file>	What has it open?


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