postgres database lock cancelling on closing gnucash

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Thu Nov 25 15:44:45 EST 2010


On Nov 24, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Johann Wöckinger wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> since Version 2.3.16RC1, I notice the following message popup on starting gnucash:
> 
> GnuCash could not get exclusive write permission to postgres://.........
> 
> with some explaination for reasons for that.
> 
> It seems, that gnucash does not delete the lock entry in the database (table: gnclock) when closing the application (I found the lock entry still in the database table after closing gnucash), so it comes up with this warning on startup, which can be overridden on selecting "open" - but its somewhat annoying.
> 
> This behaviour was not observed in former releases of the 2.3.x series.
> 
> Would be nice to have the former behavior.

Have you seen this with 2.3.17? It sounds like a duplicate of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634392, which was fixed for 2.3.17.

Regards,
John Ralls



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