Error message" . . . could not obtain the lock for c:\ . . . . . ."

Andrew Sackville-West andrew at swclan.homelinux.org
Sun Mar 9 16:20:38 EDT 2008


On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 02:56:01PM +0200, Wahur wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 6:40 AM, David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> > It means that gnucash didn't exit normally the last time you used that
> > data file.
> >
> Not always. I get this message every time if I try to open gnucash data file
> that is located on a mounted samba share. Also when I try to save the file
> there (Save as... > pick new filename > Save) I get the same error. Saving
> in a local folder works just fine.
> Both server and my workstation run on Mandriva One 2008, Gnucash 2.2.1.

I have a vague recollection that there are locking issues with samba
shares, but it's only that -- a vague recollection. You're lack of a
problem with local folders sort of confirms this. FWIW, I have no
troubles with this using nfs shares instead of samba. 

A
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