"Your global history is already being used ..."

[Scott M]

I see that later messages in this thread have mentioned the solution 
for this problem but I though I would follow up with a complete 
explanation for what was happening.

There was a problem with some of the code that does the checking on the 
History index file and it's lock file that we were working towards 
fixing with the changes resulting in what you saw with sp32.

Previously, when the lock file for the index should have been removed, 
it was not.  Also, our hostname discovery method was not so reliable.  
This is why some people see the message refer to old hostnames; the 
lock file is likely very old and has never been removed.

While some changes made it into the sp32 release, more changes were 
required for this problem to be completely solved – and we have done 
that now.  4.5sp33 correctly removes the lock file when OmniWeb quits 
as long as the lock file was created by that same instance of the 
application.

If you're repeatedly seeing the error message on startup you will need 
to delete the index.  On the next startup the message should no longer 
appear.

Earlier versions (since OmniWeb 4.1) would not throw a dialog, only 
complain to the Error Log that the index was probably corrupt due to a 
possible crash and that the index would be removed (which it was) but 
the lock file never was resulting in the same message the next time you 
started OmniWeb.  As one engineer here stated "the error message is not 
a new one it's just newly annoying".


Scott
Support Engineer
The Omni Group


On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 09:04  PM, Ward Clark wrote:

> The 4.5sp32 Release Notes say ...
>
> 	"Running a second copy of OmniWeb now asks whether you want to 
> disable history indexing for this session, delete the current index, 
> or just quit instead of assuming it is a crash and deleting the > index."
>
> My experience since installing this new release is that each time I 
> start OmniWeb I get a message that says ...
>
> 	Your global history index is already being used on the
> 	machine 'Ward-Clarks-Computer.local".
>
> ... with Quit, Delete Index, and Disable Index buttons.
>
> I'm running only the new release OmniWeb.  And ogging out and back in 
> did not clear this problem.
>
> The first few times I encountered this message, I pushed the "Disable 
> Index".  Then I tried "Delete Index".  Finally I tried logging out and 
> in.  There appears to be no way to eliminate this message.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this problem?
>
> -- Ward (registered/puzzled)