how to force VM shutdown? "trying to acquire lock... got timeout"

[starkruzr]

Since my last upgrade to 6.4-13 this happens constantly:

root@ganges:~# qm unlock 112
trying to acquire lock...
can't lock file '/var/lock/qemu-server/lock-112.conf' - got timeout

This makes it so that I cannot unlock or shutdown VMs. This particular one was just stood up. It shouldn't be in any special ACPI state; it's waiting to shut down in the OS (also forever). How do I tell the cluster "I do not care about the state of this machine, shut it down now and stop complaining about lock files?"

 

[starkruzr]

a workaround is

qm stop <vmid> --skiplock

but it doesn't explain why this keeps happening.

 

[Dunuin]

I'm also seeing this sometimes with PVE 6.4. Guest is shutting down to the point where the power should be cut off but it keeps running forever.