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.