Start-up Problem

[Michael Kjorling]

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On Mar 4 2004, johnb51 at earthlink.net wrote:

> When starting gnu-cash 1.8.6 a window comes up asking "gnu-cash cannot
>   obtain the lock for (long list of file #,s)log.xac. The database may
> be in use by another user, in which case you should not open the
> database. What would you like to do?" How do we correct this since it
> is a single user account?

If you are certain that no other GnuCash session is running and accessing the
files, I would say go ahead and tell it to open the database anyway. The lock
*should* then clear up when you exit.

I encountered this message after the computer rebooted while GnuCash was
running, due to a power failure (circuit breakers tripped).

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