Cannot lock VE

Cannot lock VE
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This issue is related to either virtuzzo or openvz vps server.

If you rebooted the server and none of the nodes come up you can try the following,

# /etc/init.d/vz restart
Virtuozzo is locked                                        [FAILED]
Virtuozzo is locked                                        [FAILED]

Then try to start a single node

# vzctl start 110
Cannot lock VE

Solution : Check the lock folder /vz/lock . Here you can see a lock file

# more /vz/lock/113.lck
27275
starting

Now kill the process in (here 27275) and remove the lock file.

Again start the node with command vzctl start