Lock Poker "locked in system"?

#1 22nd July 2011, 6:40 PM

Last night at around quarter to 12 I decided to play a SNG just for fun--no multi-tabling, or anything serious. Logged into Lock and chose a $2 DON. The game filled up pretty quickly; the table opened and the first hand was dealt. Then nothing. I sat there for a while missing PokerStars where you could easily check network status.

Everything was frozen so I thought I'd log out and then see if I could get in again. Went to close the tourney and an error box appeared stating "This program cannot be closed because it is locked in the system". Did the ctrl/alt/del drill and could not end the task, but did discover that Lock was not responding.

I fianlly resorted to shutting down my computer and rebooting which blessedly did the trick. Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone know what to do when that message appears other than reboot?

#2 22nd July 2011, 6:50 PM

you dont have to reboot your computer....press ctrl shift esc and you go to the task manager and close only lock then launch it again

#3 22nd July 2011, 7:27 PM

Thanks, frankace! Do you know why or how Lock would get locked in the system?

#4 22nd July 2011, 8:00 PM

i dont know about lock but i get locked in on cake and i use the trick

#5 22nd July 2011, 8:11 PM

Never had this wilth Lock and I've played there almost exclusively for 4 months now. But like any other software, it can crash. Killing it via Task Manager is standard when that happens, as it is with any software that hangs. I'll have to admit the verbiage of that error message is strange. "Locked in the system" is not normal lock up lingo.

Merge clients are written in Java and use an exe wrapper runtime to prevent hacking, so maybe the error message is being generated from that.

#6 22nd July 2011, 8:20 PM

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Originally Posted by dmorris68

I'll have to admit the verbiage of that error message is strange. "Locked in the system" is not normal lock up lingo.

I knew I should have taken a screenshot, but didn't. If it ever happens again, I sure will.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dmorris68

Merge clients are written in Java and use an exe wrapper runtime to prevent hacking, so maybe the error message is being generated from that.

After I did the ctrl/alt/del drill, the 3 lock screens I had open (lobby, tourney lobby and game) showed as "Not Responding" and then there was a fourth showing only as "Running" under Applications in the Task Manager. Maybe that was referring to the exe wrapper? Shoulda taken a screenie of that too...

#7 22nd July 2011, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by LarkMarlow

Last night at around quarter to 12 I decided to play a SNG just for fun--no multi-tabling, or anything serious. Logged into Lock and chose a $2 DON. The game filled up pretty quickly; the table opened and the first hand was dealt. Then nothing. I sat there for a while missing PokerStars where you could easily check network status.

Everything was frozen so I thought I'd log out and then see if I could get in again. Went to close the tourney and an error box appeared stating "This program cannot be closed because it is locked in the system". Did the ctrl/alt/del drill and could not end the task, but did discover that Lock was not responding.

I fianlly resorted to shutting down my computer and rebooting which blessedly did the trick. Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone know what to do when that message appears other than reboot?

Its possible to check the merge network status.. I have a thread about merge status , sorry cant send it now because im online with ipad , check out my threads please

#8 23rd July 2011, 12:28 AM

I use a MacBook Pro, no problems yet.

#9 23rd July 2011, 12:40 AM

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Originally Posted by LarkMarlow

After I did the ctrl/alt/del drill, the 3 lock screens I had open (lobby, tourney lobby and game) showed as "Not Responding" and then there was a fourth showing only as "Running" under Applications in the Task Manager. Maybe that was referring to the exe wrapper? Shoulda taken a screenie of that too...

Don't bother with the Applications tab, go to Processes tab and kill the client.exe process from there.

#10 23rd July 2011, 6:19 AM

Thanks, d, as always. Btw, logged in to Lock tonight just fine--hopefully what happened was just a fluke.

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