Gnome-boxses stuck on installing windows

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opening it in a term shows this

 zany130@localhost  ~  gnome-boxes                                                    

(gnome-boxes:7913): Gtk-WARNING **: 01:34:35.175: GtkFlowBox with a model will ignore sort and filter functions

(gnome-boxes:7913): Gtk-WARNING **: 01:34:35.176: GtkListBox with a model will ignore sort and filter functions

(gnome-boxes:7913): Gtk-WARNING **: 01:34:53.675: Calling org.gnome.SessionManager.Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.gnome.SessionManager.GeneralError: Invalid inhibit flags

(gnome-boxes:7913): Boxes-WARNING **: 01:35:09.971: libvirt-machine-properties.vala:599: Failed to change storage capacity of volume 'win10' to 120041577914: Unable to resize volume storage: internal error: Child process (/usr/bin/qemu-img resize /home/zany130/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images/win10 120041577984) unexpected exit status 1: qemu-img: Could not open '/home/zany130/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images/win10': Failed to get "write" lock
Is another process using the image [/home/zany130/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images/win10]?

which is strange as I trued rebooting the computer to make sure nothing else was accessing the file

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apparently this only happens if i try to set it up with a custom disk size which is really strange

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Looks like a race condition, you can file a bug.

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I was eventually able to get it to work (don’t know how) so idk how helpful a bug report would be. I guess I can still file it in case other get this issue and provide that terminal output

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