* Tobias Ellinghaus <[email protected]> [03-06-14 16:11]: > Am Donnerstag, 6. März 2014, 21:19:20 schrieb Dave: > > Thanks. > > I ran pkill darktable first to be sure and also ran fuser library.db to see > > if a process was accessing the database. > > And it still didn't want to start? That is strange, since the lock file > contains the PID of the process that locked the database, and when darktable > finds such a file on startup it checks if there is a process with that PID. > Granted, it doesn't check if it is really a darktable process or just some > random one which got the same PID by accident. That would be a strange > coincidence though.
I believe you have read something into his post. As I understand, he ran pkill and fuser to determine that their actually was no darktable instance to preclude possible corruption of the library database. If, as you allude, darktable compares it's pid to that contained in the lock file and is supposed "make it's own correction", I am witness that that does not always happen as I have had to remove the lock in able to start darktable and istr that I started darktable from the cl and saw an error msg announcing the existing lock file. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ darktable-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-devel
