id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc cpu platform 1579 wingrass: errors while a DB is open results in a zombie dbf.exe hamish grass-dev@… "Hi, moving this here from the later comments in #1276. a G_fatal_error() while a db_driver is open, such as you get when you typo the name of an attribute column, does not close the db driver, which is left behind as a zombie process (along with a dependent cmd.exe). This is a problem as the db driver may be holding a file open, blocking anything else from working on it or removing it. db_close_database_shutdown_driver() seems to shut it down properly. work-around: ctrl-alt-del to the task manager and kill any dbf.exe processes. the cmd.exe ones will then go away. maybe this program helps: (lsof for Windows) http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/openfiles.mspx Hamish " defect closed major 6.4.2 Database svn-releasebranch64 fixed wingrass, db_driver, dbf x86-32 MSWindows XP