Unable to access a file since it is locked

[locky2bme]

When attempting to power on a VM I received the error " unable to access a file since it is locked" I believe the VM was shut down before the storage from the SAN was unassigned. Help Mr. Wizzard!:8}

[athlon_crazy]

Double check if the VM configuration file still in use with $ps auxfww | grep vm-name

If it's still in use, can try to Kill the PID, then restart your VM

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[Chamon]

If you have clustered ESX hosts you will need to do the above on the host that has the lock. To see this you can run vmware-cmd -l to determine which host has the .vmx file registered to it (this is assuming that the ESX hosts are using shared storage). If kill PID# does not work then try kill -9 PID#.

[petedr]

As everyone is saying probably a hung process out there holding the log

As was suggested look for a process running for the VM with the issue ( ps -efw | grep vm-name )

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