Container Already Locked – OpenVZ

If you have tried to start, restart, or stop a container, and you get this err:

[root@server ~]# vzctl stop 104
Container already locked

You need to do one or both of these commands:

[root@server ~]# rm /vz/lock/104.lck
rm: remove regular file `/vz/lock/104.lck’? y

And/Or:

[root@server ~]# vzctl chkpnt 104 --kill
Killing…

This will delete the lock file, and clear the check point.  Once you have run them, you can re-run your vzctl stop/start/restart command.