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February 13th, 2014 13:00
EMCGrab closed session
Hi,
I was in the process of running a emcgrab on my esxi hosts when i accidentally closed the session. now when i try to start the process again i get the following error:
Detected running process or existence of .lock file
Grab Data Collection already running. Only a single instance at any time.
So how do i unlock or close that session so i can start the process again?
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NitramSnave
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March 1st, 2014 07:00
Hi,
I recommend first you take a look at this EMC KB Article - http://support.emc.com/kb/86255
Then also note that as per EMC KB 56156 (http://support.emc.com/kb/56156) the following important information applies.
Possibly EMC Grab was touched by a Windows application such as winzip before transfer to ESX server. Make sure the grab script is transferred to the server in binary mode
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Solution is at the prompt select "save file" that transfers the emcgrab_ESX_v1.0.tar directly to the ESX server by using an scp transfer program such as winscp, then extracts and runs in the proper procedure.
[root@VMWAREESX1 temp]# tar -xvf emcgrab_ESX_v1.X.X.tar
[root@VMWAREESX1 temp]# cd /emcgrab
[root@VMWAREESX1 emcgrab]# ./emcgrab.sh
Kind Regards,
Martin
sudermab
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September 29th, 2014 08:00
The same issue occurred when I accidentally closed an EMCGRAB session as well. Check your user profile folder (e.g. C:\users\user_name) for a .LOCK file. The name should be similar to ".GRABxxxxxxxxxx.lock" if I recall.
I deleted the file and then the grab utility would open and run again.