[Ethereum] Can’t run Parity: “Failed to create lock file, the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process”

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trying to run parity, I get the following error:

Client  service error: Client(Database("IO error: Failed  to create lock file:        C:\\Users\\mjensen01\AppData\\Local\\Parity\\Ethereum\\chains\\ethereum\\db\\906a34e69aec8c0d\\overlayrecent\\db/LOCK:  The process cannot access the file because  it is being used by another process.\r\n"))

I ran the windows executable from here: https://github.com/paritytech/parity/releases, then navigated to the directory where it got installed, and put in parity –warp, as explained here: https://github.com/paritytech/parity/wiki/Getting-Synced. It seems there are some instructions missing? …

Best Answer

Your node is already running. You will see the parity tray icon.

If you don't want it to run automatically, you can right-click on the tray icon and remove the tick at "run at startup".

Note the --warp flag does nothing as it is enabled by default.

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