[GNC] Cannot Obtain Lock error?

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Wed Nov 4 15:28:44 EST 2020


HI,

On Wed, November 4, 2020 3:02 pm, Jack Slater wrote:
> I used to get this a bit a few years ago.  It has reappeared.  I just
> continue to save the file anyway but I get nervous about file integrity,
> etc. every time I see it. So what's going on and how do I stop it?

Make sure you exit gnucash cleanly and that it fully quits before you
shutdown your computer.

Either that or you have a filesystem/storage problem where it can't
actually create the lock file.

> Jack

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-derek

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