LMMS won't close (Windows 7)

[C_H]

@slipstick

Yes you understood my explanation correctly. LMMS is not trying to install something (never said that), I said the dialog appearing behaves and looks like a dialog that appears when installing a program. And yes, it appears LMMS is asking for admin permissions when it is not needed.

Will try the suggestions and see what happens.

[C_H]

The pop-up dialog is now gone. For some reason LMMS ran with admin rights.
Doing a 'right-click/properties/compatibility' and deselecting 'Run this program as an administrator' took care of that.

However, the 'ghost' lmms.exe process still remains in task-man after LMMS was closed.

[musikbear]

However, the 'ghost' lmms.exe process still remains in task-man after LMMS was closed.

so strange.. there have to be 'something' in your setup, that kind of 'force' an administration shutdown of programs opened with administration privileges
But that is new to me-
But as long as it remains one instance, then its not that bad, but strange 8|

[C_H]

It is strange. Never ever seen this before.

One new 'ghost' process remains for each copy of LMMS being opened and then closed, ie open and close LMMS six times results in 6 ghost processes.

[Singular]

Well, I just installed the last 64-bits version on my Windows 7 Home Premium and I get these unclosable "ghost" instances too, one for each time I load the application.

The suggestion that the problem is due to Windows itself is completely ludicrous. Why would 99.99% of Windows applications terminate themselves cleanly if the problem is on Windows? LMMS is not the only audio manipulation software on my computer but it certainly is the only one with that big problem.

Pretending that Windows is the culprit is one sure way to never fix the problem in LMMS code...

[Gps]

The suggestion that windows is to blame is not ludicrous at all, nor did any dev of lmms say, they wont try to fix it.

Do you have any idea, with how many hardware configurations, and operations systems people who write a program have to deal with ?

I am on Linux, but have used lmms on win7 too. I did not have the problem you have.

If you stay calm, you might be able to help the dev find the cause of this issue, so maybe they can fix it.

[gws]

Another win7-64 data point here - simply launching LMMS 1.1.3/64bit and closing it (it will open the default template, but no manual actions are performed) will cause a zombie lmms.exe process to be created, and this can be repeated multiple times, resulting in multiple zombies. Fairly vanilla install. SDL audio; WinMM MIDI.

This didn't seem to cause too many problems at first observation (other than consuming ~40mb ram per), until I realized that one of the VSTs I like to use (glitch) was now failing to receive beat sync from lmms (unsure of terminology). Rebooting and launching lmms with no zombies allows the VST to work 100% of the times I tested it; launching lmms with one or more zombies present caused the VST to fail 100% of the times that I test it. (n = ~dozen)

I'm not set up for development on M$, or I'd try to offer something more - but at least there's another data point for y'all.

-g

[musikbear]

First
Welcome to the forum!
:)
Heres the most important LMMS links:
LSP - dedicated site for sharing projects, presets, themes and more https://lmms.io/lsp/
LMMS homepage https://lmms.io/
The Forum - for discussion https://lmms.io/forum/
LMMS Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/makefreemusic
LMMS Soundcloud group https://soundcloud.com/groups/lmms
LMMS Wiki - documentation about the program https://lmms.io/documentation/
LMMS Google+ community http://goo.gl/CxzpNI
LMMS Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/LMMSOfficial

will cause a zombie lmms.exe process to be created, and this can be repeated multiple times, resulting in multiple zombies.

Thanks for your report! I hope someone else will chime in and confirm your findings. Could i ask you to do a total cold reboot, and repeat it?

[Gps]

I wonder if I can help trying to solve this? PC is dual boot Linux 64bit, and win7 pro 32 bit.

[musikbear]

I wonder if I can help trying to solve this? PC is dual boot Linux 64bit, and win7 pro 32 bit.

No, because the issue is reported from 64 bit, and there are significant differences. But you are ofcause welcome just to see if YOU have 'zombies' :p -and thank you for your offer :D