[SOLVED] unable to unlock a locked container after failed backup

odix67

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Hi
after a failed backup (device runs out of disk space) of a container, the container status was usually locked. The command:
Bash:
root@something:~# pct unlock 3002
unable to open file '/etc/pve/nodes/something/lxc/3002.conf.tmp.11948' - Input/output error
doesn't work. After some investigation and some trails I've noticed that the cluster service was in a not so good shape ;-), it was just in a read-only mode.
I decided to restart the cluster service
Bash:
systemctl restart pve-cluster.service
after doing this, I was unable to unlock the container

BR odi

btw: it is single node, running pve 6.2-4