Deleted the .lock file and now can run Darktable again. Many thanks to all who helped and to everyone that develops this great piece of software, your work is very much appreciated.
Cheers Rob On 10/11/14 18:09, Rob Dean wrote: > Ok, found the "library.db.lock" file in the .config/darktable/ > directory. Now what to do? Can I just delete it? > > Sorry for all the noise on the list..... > > On 10/11/14 17:57, Rob Dean wrote: >> Further to that, when I run >> >> "ps aux | grep -w 2721" >> >> I get >> >> "rob-car+ 3561 0.0 0.0 9464 2296 pts/11 S+ 17:46 0:00 grep >> --color=auto -w 2721" >> >> I searched for a "library.db.lock" file but couldn't seem to find it >> (although I'm not sure where exactly to look). >> >> >> On 10/11/14 17:39, Rob Dean wrote: >>> When I run >>> >>> cd /opt/darktable/bin/ >>> ./darktable >>> >>> I get the following: >>> >>> rob-carly@rob-carly-P5KR:/opt/darktable/bin$ ./darktable >>> [init] the database lock file contains a pid that seems to be alive in >>> your system: 2721 >>> [init] database is locked, probably another process is already using it >>> >>> >>> >>> On 10/11/14 17:13, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: >>>> Am 10.11.2014 um 03:04 schrieb Rob Dean: >>>>> Hopefully easily answered but I've never used GIT before - I followed >>>>> the instructions and was able to do everything up to and including "cd >>>>> build && sudo make install" however when I type "darktable" into the cli >>>>> to start darktable it I get >>>>> >>>>> "rob-carly@rob-carly-P5KR:~$ darktable >>>>> The program 'darktable' is currently not installed. You can install it >>>>> by typing: >>>>> sudo apt-get install darktable" >>>> This is expected because the installation directory is not in your PATH so >>>> that the darktable executable is not found. >>>> >>>>> Trying to run the darktable executable in "/opt/darktable/bin/" does >>>>> nothing either. >>>> What exaclty does it say when you do: >>>> cd /opt/darktable/bin/ >>>> ./darktable >>>> >>>> Matthias >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Darktable-users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Darktable-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Darktable-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Darktable-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
