Bug 340974

Summary:	Handle existing lockfile better
Product:	[Applications] kmymoney	Reporter:	Daniel Hahler <kde-bugzilla>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KMyMoney Devel Mailing List <kmymoney-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	git (master)
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Daniel Hahler 2014-11-15 01:49:38 UTC

KMyMoney failed to startup, but showed the empty outline of the "Did you know?" dialog only.

After stracing the process, I've found out that it was looking for / waiting on ~/.kde/share/config/kmymoneyrc.lock.

It would have been more helpful, if there was a message about this - preferably in the GUI, but even on the console output it would have helped.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Thomas Baumgart 2014-11-17 10:17:09 UTC

The file in question is maintained by the KSharedConfig object, which is part of the base KDE classes. KMyMoney does not access (create, write, read, delete) this file and all access to the config system is encapsulated by the above mentioned KDE base object. Thus this is more of an upstream problem..