[SOLVED] Problem when opening KiCad

[roboya]

Hello!
I have noticed a problem. For the version, see below.

1. Open an existing kicadd_pro file
2. (try to) open the PCB file.
   → 1 click : doesn’t open
   → 2 clicks: does something, opens an empty file
   and pops up a window saying: PCB xxx.kicad_pcb is already open by ‘me’ at ‘pc_name’.
   Interleaved saves may produce very unexpected results.
   Here: 2 buttons. Open Anyway or cancel.
   When choosing open anyway, it works normally. But what is the cause of this phenomenon?

Thanks!

Addendum: I should also say that when it happened this morning, it was a fresh boot, there was no application running (i.e. no other Kicad file open, and in short no application at all).

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Application: KiCad x86_64 on x86_64

Version: 7.0.7-7.0.7~ubuntu23.04.1, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.2
FreeType 2.12.1
HarfBuzz 6.0.0
FontConfig 2.14.1
libcurl/7.88.1 OpenSSL/3.0.8 zlib/1.2.13 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.5.4 libidn2/2.3.3 libpsl/0.21.2 (+libidn2/2.3.3) libssh/0.10.4/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.52.0 librtmp/2.3

Platform: Ubuntu 23.04, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, ubuntu, wayland

Build Info:
Date: Aug 13 2023 23:14:43
wxWidgets: 3.2.2 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.74.0
OCC: 7.6.3
Curl: 7.88.1
ngspice: 38
Compiler: GCC 12.3.0 with C++ ABI 1017

Build settings:
KICAD_SPICE=ON

[gkeeth]

This probably means KiCad crashed at some point while you had the project open, which leaves behind a lockfile. You can look for the lockfile in the project directory and delete it.

[jmk]

This file @roboya , the .lck file

[mousey]

I too had this problem and removed the file you suggested and all is well So solved for me…cheers.

[roboya]

Hello!

Sorry for the delay, I was busy on other things. It didn’t happen in the meantime, but it’s good to know.
As I had a saved zip of the project, I just unzipped the latest one. I could have saved time.
So consider it solved for me too.

Thanks!

[mmartini]

FWIW, deleting the .lck file actually caused the schematic file to no longer open, it claimed it could not fin other associated files. To get into my schematic, it took a few click sequences to figure out: first File->close the project, then open it again, try to open the .sch file, deal with the lock warning by clicking “open anyway”. I could not find a way around this, so I made a new project and copied my work over to that. Fortunately I wasn’t too deep into things yet. The schematic I opened in the old project and cut and pasted over to the new, and the library files I copied to the new project directory and set up new project library references in the new project.