Re: [LAU] [Rosegarden-user] RG 17.04 seems to leave lock files behind

On 01/10/2018 07:59 AM, Will Godfrey wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 08:40:55 -0500
> Ted Felix <ted@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 01/10/2018 02:46 AM, david wrote:
>>> Was completely unable to duplicate the problem.
>>>
>>> Must have been the phases of the moon or something. Thanks for fixing it
>>> quantum-mechanics-style simply by turning your attention toward it! :)
>>
>> Ha! Computers are afraid of me.
>>
>> Lock file problems tend to happen when rg crashes. My best guess is
>> that it was crashing when it was going down and now it isn't.
>>
>> Ted.
>>
>
> Another way that's caught me (rather more often than I'd like to admit) is
> shutting down the desktop, without first shutting down Rosegarden.

Didn't do that!

> Wasn't there some discussion on adding some kind of time stamp to the lock
> file, so that it will ignore one that was (say) over 24 hour old.

I don't remember if there was a timestamp in the orphaned lockfile, but
it clearly wouldn't have been over 24 hours old.

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