Unix Domain Socket

[sehHeiden]

Hi,

now every time I try to open Geany I get the error message that translates to somewhat like: "Geany tried to use the Unix domain Socket of another instance.

Only changes since yesterday installed anaconda for Python 3, 64-bit...

Platform : Xubuntu 16.04
geany 1.27 (kompiliert am 2016-04-17 mit GTK 2.24.30, GLib 2.48.0)

[elextr]

Are you running Geany as root?

[sehHeiden]

No, I was not!

[eht16]

Is the socket file on a filesystem which does not support file ownerships? E.g. a CIFS/SMB mount or a FAT/NTFS filesystem?

The socket file is stored in $TMPDIR, which is usually /tmp.
Can you post the contents of Help->Debug Messages of a running Geany instance?
Also post the output of :

stat -l ~/.config/geany/*socket*
stat `realpath ~/.config/geany/*socket*`

[elextr]

@eht16 the thing that matters is the location of the socket link, not the socket itself, see #1411.

@Meresmata can you check the type of filesystem where your configuration is stored (or if you don't specify it with -c, then the filesystem where your home directory is stored).

[sehHeiden]

Hi,
at first as partion I use a crypt-luks.

@eht16

stat ~/.config/geany/socket output is:

Datei: '/home/basti/.config/geany/geany_socket_TravelMate-B117-M__0' -> '/tmp/geany_socket.7da22a6e'
Größe: 26 Blöcke: 8 EA Block: 4096 symbolische Verknüpfung
Gerät: 2eh/46d Inode: 3288257 Verknüpfungen: 1
Zugriff: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Zugriff : 2017-09-27 02:19:41.900293165 +0200
Modifiziert: 2017-09-27 02:19:41.900293165 +0200
Geändert : 2017-09-27 02:19:41.900293165 +0200
Geburt : -

Sorry (in German)

stat realpath ~/.config/geany/*socket*

stat: Aufruf von stat für '/tmp/geany_socket.7da22a6e' nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

(means file or directory not found)

@elextr Whose -c option?

Thanks, a lot!

[elextr]

It looks like Geany was not shut down properly and it has left a socket link in your config directory ~/.config/geany/geany_socket_*this part varies*, make sure all Geanys are closed then delete that link, and try again.

[sehHeiden]

I tried to delete it. Can you specify in more details, what to delete?

[sehHeiden]

@elextr thanks alot. I tried it out with krusader. That worked very well.

[daniel-barrows]

For future reference, the short version of this issue is that it is almost always caused by running geany via sudo on systems which have configured sudo not to change $HOME, and that it can be resolved by closing geany and then running this in a terminal:

rm ~/.config/geany/geany_socket*

Previously reported in #294 and #1411
Long discussion of the issue at #1150
Request for more user-friendly recovery from the issue at #2102