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тАО04-24-2008 03:06 AM
тАО04-24-2008 03:06 AM
Controller is locked by another instance of ACU.
One of the disks has a red warning light but still shows some activity. When I try to look ath the msa1000 with the GUI tool it starts and quits immediately. The CLI tool does start up but gives me:
Error: MSA1000 at SGM052812K is locked by another instance of ACU.
Now, I've look at the running processes of all the connected nodes but can't find any array configuration utilities running.
Is there a trick to kick that ghost session that prevents me from running the acu?
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тАО11-06-2008 07:50 AM
тАО11-06-2008 07:50 AM
Re: Controller is locked by another instance of ACU.
hpacucli --help
Error: Another instance of ACU is already running (possibly a service). Please terminate the ACU application before running the ACU CLI. Press ENTER to exit.
There is no other session/service running, although I ran a firefox session recently which crashed. Now I can neither use the web interface nor hpacucli. I have killed all cpqacuexe processes by hand but it doesn't help.
How can I correct the problem without rebooting?
My installed rpms are
hpsmh-2.1.12-200
hpacucli-8.10-2
hp-health-8.1.1-14.rhel5
hpadu-8.10-4
The system is centos 5.1 (redhat el5)
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тАО07-06-2011 03:50 AM - edited тАО07-06-2011 03:53 AM
тАО07-06-2011 03:50 AM - edited тАО07-06-2011 03:53 AM
Re: Controller is locked by another instance of ACU.
hpacucli sometimes is complicated, to say the least. To get it running again, follow the following steps:
(1) Make sure that there is no other instance:
# ps -e | grep hpacucli
If hpacucli is still running, this will print something like this:
762 pts/15 00:00:00 hpacucli
775 pts/15 00:00:02 .hpacucli
First, kill the process named "hpacucli" (without the leading "."); then check if ".hpacucli" (with the leading ".") is still running; if this is is the case, kill it too.
(2) hpacucli is a shell wrapper for .hpacucli and creates the following lockfiles:
- ACU-XE
- CLI_SCRIPTING_MUTEX
- CPQACU_MUTEX
Depending on your version of hpacucli, these files reside in one of these two locations:
- /var/opt/compaq/locks
- /opt/compaq/cpqacuxe/bld/locks
Remove those files, but be careful, they are not specific to hpacucli, but used by other HP tools as well.
(3) If this fails as well (as it did for me), try to remove all traces of hpacucli from your system and reinstall, in Debian you can do this by:
# dpkg --purge hpacucli
# aptitude install hpacucli
For the second line to work, you need to add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR/downloads/ProLiantSupportPack/ lenny/current non-free
That did the trick for me, good luck.