First, that's a user question, please use gnucash-user in the future. Yes, it's a bug in 5.0-5.3 that was fixed for 5.4. Just kill the running instances with Task Manager and proceed with the installation.
Regards, John Ralls > On Oct 15, 2023, at 13:45, Paul Kroitor <p...@kroitor.ca> wrote: > > Hi, I've been running 5.1 on Windows 11 and have decided 5.4 (installer > version 5.4.1) seems stable enough to upgrade. > > > > For the first time in at least a dozen GnuCash upgrades, I encountered an > issue with the install. The installer insisted two instances of > "gnucash.exe" were still running even though I had shut down GnuCash 5.1 > before starting the upgrade. Retrying the install also failed, but it > eventually succeeded after I terminated both instances with the Task > Manager. > > > > I then checked with the new install (5.4 / installer 5.4.1) and discovered > that "gnucash.exe - GnuCash Program File (32-bit)" remains in the task list > indefinitely after shutting GnuCash down. > > > > Is this expected? Is it some weird post-caching in the task manager display > (they rewrote it for Win 11 with even less deterministic information - I > hate the way Windows boxes are getting more and more like Macs every > release)? > > > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
