[GNC-dev] GnuCash Task Persists Despite Shutdown

[john]

First, that's a user question, please use gnucash-user in the future.

Yes, it's a bug in 5.0-5.3 that was fixed for 5.4. Just kill the running instances with Task Manager and proceed with the installation.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Oct 15, 2023, at 13:45, Paul Kroitor <paul at kroitor.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi, I've been running 5.1 on Windows 11 and have decided 5.4 (installer
> version 5.4.1) seems stable enough to upgrade.
> 
> 
> 
> For the first time in at least a dozen GnuCash upgrades, I encountered an
> issue with the install. The installer insisted two instances of
> "gnucash.exe" were still running even though I had shut down GnuCash 5.1
> before starting the upgrade. Retrying the install also failed, but it
> eventually succeeded after I terminated both instances with the Task
> Manager.
> 
> 
> 
> I then checked with the new install (5.4 / installer 5.4.1) and discovered
> that  "gnucash.exe - GnuCash Program File (32-bit)" remains in the task list
> indefinitely after shutting GnuCash down.
> 
> 
> 
> Is this expected? Is it some weird post-caching in the task manager display
> (they rewrote it for Win 11 with even less deterministic information - I
> hate the way Windows boxes are getting more and more like Macs every
> release)?
> 
> 
> 
> Paul
> 
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