Fix Proxmox (PVE) “can’t lock file ‘/var/lock/qemu-server/lock-xxx.conf’ – got timeout”
The Issue
When trying to “Stop” or “Shutdown” virtual machine from Proxmox (PVE) web gui, the “Cluster log” shows
he Fix
We can manually delete the lock from following path
cd /var/lock/
if it is VM check on /var/lock/qemu-server/ and if it is a container /run/lock/lxc/cd
then delete locked .conf file " lock-108104.conf"
rm yourVMID.conf
