.LCK file disappears normally when I "X" out of Gnucash so I'm assuming it's all good and then kill the background process via Task Manager. When I shut down the process is going to disappear anyway :-)
Cheers David H. On Sat, 30 Sept 2023 at 07:06, Fross, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > In addition to Bill's question, is there any risk? Do those "zombie" > processes have the data file open? I just looked and GNUCash is not > running but I had two processes running in the background. I killed them, > but then wondered if that is something I should have done.... > > Michael > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 3:45 PM WR D <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am not sure if this is something new with 5.4, but I notice when I exit > > from GnuCash (windows 11), there is a background process left running. > > > > In task manager the process is called "GnuCash Program File (32 bit)" ... > > it uses 0% CPU, takes 76.9MB memory, and 0% disk. But it is always > running. > > > > The reason I found this is that I observed something was locking up one > of > > the Gnucash log files - I know this because I keep by Gnucash files on > > OneDrive and I now sometimes get sync errors due to log file being "in > use" > > even after I shut down Gnucash. I assume it is the background process > that > > is using a log file preventing it from being synced properly even after > > GnuCash shuts down. > > > > I also observe the online finance quote retrieval has changed with 5.4. > > Specifically, previously there was always a window frame pop-up while > quote > > retrieval was happening. Since 5.4, this no longer happens. The > retrieval > > happens but there is no window showing anywhere ... did online quote > > retrieval move to a background process perhaps. > > > > I wonder if the background process issue is related to some change in how > > GnuCash triggers online quote retrievals? > > > > I am considering to revert back to previous GnuCash version to confirm > the > > background process locking issue goes away. > > > > Regards, > > Bill > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
