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

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

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

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.

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

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

Try to type the following command in Terminal kill -9 526 and restart Roon after that

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

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

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

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

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