Fatal Error: Could not create required lock file on startup on Mac OSX Yosemite [Solved]

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I use MacOs Yosemite. After download of Roon I get a fatal error : Could not create required lock file

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Have a look at this post. I guess it is the same problem. danny gives some insights and a solution.

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Thanks, I read that before but it didn’t help me

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Does it work, if you create a new user and start it then? You can delete that user afterwards, but it would indicate it has something to do with your user library.

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Would you mind to launch Terminal app, on the machine where Roon Core is running, type this command and paste here terminal output

ps aux | grep -i roon | grep -v grep

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That is the output:

frankblumenschein 526 0,1 0,6 2783856 98968 ?? U 4:44pm 0:02.47 /Applications/Roon.app/Roon --debug --gc=sgen --server Roon.exe

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Try to type the following command in Terminal

kill -9 526

and restart Roon after that

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The output from terminal says “no such process”
Roon is not running

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That’s strange. Let’s try to restart the machine and see if that changes anything.

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The process was stopped. But after restart the same error occurred

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Do you have permissions to write to /tmp? Tell us about your Mac user

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I have permission to write to /tmp.
I am the only user on that Mac.
I should have all necessary rw permissions

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that error occurs because it couldnt write the lock file to /tmp that ensures multiple Roons are not running…

NOTE: I just checked the code and I’m not obeying $TEMP/$TMP (since the code has to work across two different processes with possibly different env vars) – just putting it in /tmp.

all the code does is create a file in /tmp, and then try to F_SETLK it

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Thanks for all the help it is running now.
Problem was no writing access to /tmp

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