[GNC] Where does gnucash put the lock file on Linux?

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Wed Jan 20 09:08:27 EST 2021


Question: do you have selinux enabled?  It is possible that somehow you have 
the wrong selinux context set on the directory or don't have a selinux context 
set at all.

At Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:33:33 +0000 Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 08:23:23AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The lock file is created in the same directory as the data file.
> > Is that directory not writeable?  That would cause the error.
> 
> The directory is definitely writeable and there definitely isn't any
> sort of lock file in the directory:-
> 
>     chris$ cd tmp/pcc/2020
>     /home/chris/tmp/pcc/2020
>     chris$ ls
>     building.gnucash  building.gnucash.20210120121447.log  general.gnucash
>     chris$ ls -al
>     total 504
>     drwxrwxr-x 2 chris chris   4096 Jan 20 12:14 .
>     drwxrwxr-x 3 chris chris   4096 Jan 20 12:13 ..
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 212992 Jan 20 12:14 building.gnucash
>     -rw-rw-r-- 1 chris chris    381 Jan 20 12:14 building.gnucash.20210120121447.log
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 290816 Jan 20 12:14 general.gnucash
>     chris$ gnucash general.gnucash
>     Found Finance::Quote version 1.49.
>     chris$ 
> 
> The above sequence pops up the can't create lock file error.
> 
> > If GnuCash cannot create (and lock) the lock file then it will throw the
> > error.
> > If you are SURE that there is not another process running, you can "Open
> > Anyways" and that will clear the error.
> > 
> Yes, I realise that, but it's not "right". :-)
> 
> 
> > NB that gnucash may mix the metadata for two versions of the same-named
> > file located in different directories.  The GCM file does not contain the
> > file location information.
> > 
> I'm not quite sure I follow that, I do have general.gnucash in two
> different places.  Are you saying that this may cause problems and
> that I should rename my 'previous year' accounts to (for example)
> general2020.gnucash as well as moving them to a suitably named
> sub-directory?
> 

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