Just had exactly the same message.
Then realised I had double clicked on a Panel Icon, thus trying to open
two instances of darktable !
R.
On 11/08/17 00:06, David Vincent-Jones wrote:
A fresh install of the new Opensuse 42.3 and I get a new dt error when I
try to import files from my
It's a sqlite database. One way past this locking issue is to
clone it via dump, and then move the old file out of way. I keep
backups of my library like this:
$ cat ~/bin/dtbackup.sh
#!/bin/bash
DTLIB=$HOME/.config/darktable/library.db
DTNEWLIB=${DTLIB}-`/usr/bin/date +%Y%m%d_%H%M`
* David Vincent-Jones [08-10-17 19:54]:
> A fresh install of the new Opensuse 42.3 and I get a new dt error when I
> try to import files from my camera.
>
> "darktable - error locking database
> an error has occurred while trying to open the database from
>
A fresh install of the new Opensuse 42.3 and I get a new dt error when I
try to import files from my camera.
"darktable - error locking database
an error has occurred while trying to open the database from
/home/david/.config/darktable/data.db
the database lock file contains a pid that seems to