Quote from: kipper01 on December 31, 2016, 03:19:31 AM

Trying to get an electrum server up and running but get following error in logs

INFO:root:ElectrumX server starting
INFO:BlockProcessor:switching current directory to /home/kipper01/.electrumx/db
INFO:BlockProcessor:reorg limit is 200 blocks
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/electrumx-0.9.19-py3.5.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/electrumx_server.py", line 68, in main
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/electrumx-0.9.19-py3.5.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/electrumx_server.py", line 49, in main_loop
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/electrumx-0.9.19-py3.5.egg/server/protocol.py", line 58, in __init__
self.bp = BlockProcessor(env)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/electrumx-0.9.19-py3.5.egg/server/block_processor.py", line 161, in __init__
super().__init__(env)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/electrumx-0.9.19-py3.5.egg/server/db.py", line 54, in __init__
self.reopen_db(True)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/electrumx-0.9.19-py3.5.egg/server/db.py", line 86, in reopen_db
self.db = open_db(db_name, self.env.db_engine, max_open_files)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/electrumx-0.9.19-py3.5.egg/server/storage.py", line 24, in open_db
return db_class(name, for_sync)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/electrumx-0.9.19-py3.5.egg/server/storage.py", line 34, in __init__
self.open(name, create=self.is_new, for_sync=for_sync)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/electrumx-0.9.19-py3.5.egg/server/storage.py", line 85, in open
max_open_files=mof, compression=None)
File "_plyvel.pyx", line 236, in plyvel._plyvel.DB.__init__ (plyvel/_plyvel.cpp:3129)
File "_plyvel.pyx", line 80, in plyvel._plyvel.raise_for_status (plyvel/_plyvel.cpp:1698)
plyvel._plyvel.IOError: b'IO error: lock Bitcoin-mainnet/LOCK: Resource temporarily unavailable'
CRITICAL:root:ElectrumX server terminated abnormally

Please visit #electrum for help, I don't read this site.

The above just means you had the DB open already elsewhere, perhaps you were running 2 sessions.