* Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> [03-06-14 16:38]: > * 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.
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