Hi!
Frank Church wrote 11 lines
There are some ttimes when something seems to have locked the executable
and it can't be created until the computer is restarted.
I have come across this issue a few times and it is happening again. I
upgraded to 9.28.3 beta and FPC 2.4.0 but the problem still exists.
Is there some more information on this issue?
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Frank Church
That normally means that some process is still accessing the executable (it might be the application itself or the debugger).
Do you use Windows? If so, you can try the following steps (each step should be tried separately):
- Try to use "Start->Reset debugger" (or similar - I use the German version) in Lazarus.
- Restart the Lazarus IDE.
- Open the Task Manager and go to the "Processes" tab. There you can look whether you find the name of the executable of your application. You should kill that process.
- You can download the "Process Explorer" from Microsoft ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx ). When running it you can search for open handles to your application's executable (it should be "Find->Open Handle or DLL", but I can't check currently, cause I'm at my Linux computer) where you enter your application's binary name (including the ".exe"). If your application is found you might try to kill the process that has this open handle (but please don't try to kill anything that sounds important like csrss.exe or srvhost.exe). If this process was explorer.exe you can restart it from the "File->Run" menu (or you won't have a taskbar ^^).
- If this also does not help you need to restart your computer. :(
On Linux I've never experienced such a problem, but steps 1 to 3 could also help there (in step 3 you need to use an equivalent to Task Manager like htop). Step 4 can be replaced with using lsof (list-open-files) combined with grep. That combination can point you to the process that uses your binary.
Regards,
Sven
