I just received a bit of a panic phone call from our database administrator as Goldmine would no longer open. While he was performing the Goldmine database maintenance his workstation died (something else to fix later I guess). When he tried to log in again to Goldmine he came up with this error:
- Goldmine Error: “Waiting for Permission to Log In”
He tried logging in on multiple computers, without any luck at all. That’s when he called me.
After talking about who our Goldmine consultant was, and how much it will cost us to call them I figured I would have a quick look on-line to try to find some help.
All I can say is “I love Google“.
After about 10-minutes of searching and reading I found the solutions, and thankfully it’s an easy one:
- This is almost always the result of a failed database maintenance.
Find the file in the GoldMine root directory, “license.dbx” or “license.dbu”. Rename that file to “license.dbf”. That should allow you to log in but you may still need to run a database maintenance again.
That’s it. A simple solution to a rather messy and scary problem.
Nice! I love google, too! It brought me here, and it worked! Thanks!