Strange behaviour on n950

[AlterX]

Hi all,
i've created an app for the n950; it works very well, but if i kill it in task manager, relaunching it, it doesn't start anymore;
so i've tried to launch it in the terminal and it gives me the following message:

ERROR!!: lock reserved but no window id for binary name found

In my .desktop file i'm using "/usr/bin/single-instance /opt/MyApp/bin/Myapp

[lgeyer]

For every single instance application there is a lock file created (/tmp/single-instance-locks/<application>/instance.lock if I remember correctly). I guess this lock persists when killing your application, which prevents single-instance from launching another instance.

[AlterX]

Ok but so is a problem of the system that doesn't clear the lock...?

[AlterX]

If i close my app with my close button, it always work; when i kill the app in the task manager it always doesn't restart!!!
The lock file is always present in both case (closing the app)

[lgeyer]

I think single-instance should release the lock even when the application gets terminated.

However, I am too little involved in Meego development to know why single-instance behaves this way or if this is a known limitation / bug. Probably the Meego forums or the Meego mailing list are better places to discuss this question.

[AlterX]

Ok, but for that reason, ovi publisher has unpublished my app!

[Kypeli]

You should look from the page below how to do single instance apps in Harmattan (it's very badly documented by Nokia...)

http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Single_Instance_Harmattan_Applications