Proxmox trying to acquire lock... TASK ERROR: can't lock file '/var/lock/qemu-server/lock-102.conf' - got timeout VM won't shutdown
If Proxmox won't start a VM with an error like this:
trying to acquire lock...
TASK ERROR: can't lock file '/var/lock/qemu-server/lock-102.conf' - got timeout
rm /var/lock/qemu-server/lock-102.conf
Then try to restart the VM and it should be good.
What we did above was find the lock file that is named lock-VMID (in our case 102) and deleted it to release the lock.
If it's stuck and cannot shutdown this normally works:
qm unlock VMID
qm stop VMID
If the above doesn't work, you can forcefully kill the VM:
1.) Find the process ID
#in the example below we see the Process ID is "1137"
ps aux|grep VMID
2.) Kill the process ID
kill ProcessPIDFromAbove
Example of force killing a VM in Proxmox
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proxmox, acquire, task, var, qemu, server, conf, timeoutif, avm, timeout, rm, restart, vm,