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whitchurch5E6F
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October 23, 2020
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I got a libgit2 error -14. Some database file is locked, preventing me from opening my project.

  • October 23, 2020
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I was working on a character animator project.

While trying to use the Automatic head movement based on audio feature.  

The system froze and I had to Ctrl-Alt- Del to end task and restart the Application.

 

Upon trying to open the project. I got the error posted in the screen shot.

- Looks like some lock on a file, or something.  Is there a way to fix it.

- I followed the path, listed in the error, to the master file in the head directory.

 

Can some dev, or support person tell me, if there is anything i need to be able to turn off, in the file, to get it to release the lock, so that the I can gain access to the project again thanks

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whitchurch5E6FAuthor
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October 23, 2020

I was able to fix the issue.  It had to do with a temp master.lock file which Charater Animator created, which unfortunately was not unlocked, after the crash.

 

Let me post my solution here:

 

 

 

I had to navigate to CH Data -> repo.noindex -> refs -> heads.

Inside that folder, i found the Master.lock file.  

I delted it to release the lock, or whatever was blocking the application from proceeding normally and it worked.

My reasoning for doind this action was:

- Under normal circumstances, there is only a Master file.

- The Master.Lock file seemed like an unknown ,(probably created by some temp process, for database lock)

- Eliminating it, returned things to normal and the project now opens.

 

-NOTE:  This maynot work for other gitlib errors.  It seems pertinent only to Master.Lock file.

 

Thanks

 

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