"Audacity already running" problem (SOLVED)

Audacity Help Forum GNU/Linux
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Hi!

I’m running ubuntu 12.04 with a UA-25 EX.
Audacity worked for a few times. But suddenly I get the warning message “The system has detected that another copy of Audacity is running…” and I can’t open it.

I killed the task, and I reinstalled and rebooted a few times too. Any idea?

Thanks

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A couple of things you could try:

  1. See if there is a lock file (called audacity-lock-<username/>) in "/var/tmp/audacity-<username/>/
    (<username/> is your user name)
    If there is, delete it.
  2. Try resetting the Audacity Preferences. To do that, delete the file audacity.cfg from ~/.audacity-data/
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Also note that once Audacity is running, you cannot open further files from a file manager or the command-line; you will see the error you mention:
http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202 .


Gale

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Thanks for your answers!

Awesome Steve! I deleted the " audacity-lock-<username/" file, and then it worked. :smiley:

Thanks!