[IWE] Hey Thane (or other VMWare person)

[Thane Walkup]

I would run a chkdsk on the drive, however...

Barry Roomberg wrote:
> Backup completed, removed locks, booted fine.
> Phew.
>
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 11:19, Thane Walkup wrote:
>   
>> Honestly, I have no idea.  Make backups, (which you are already doing)
>> then proceed from there.
>>
>> Barry Roomberg wrote:
>>     
>>> My Linux box that hosts several VMWare windows instances had the power
>>> cord yanked.
>>>
>>> One of the VMWare instances refuses to boot, telling me:
>>> ----------------------------
>>> Cannot open the disk '/LONG PATH TO/Mirus_XP-000001.vmdk' or one of the
>>> snapshot disks it depends on.
>>> Reason: Failed to lock file.
>>> ----------------------------
>>> In that directory there are a bunch of files that look like lock files,
>>> ie:
>>>
>>> 564d20db-d284-5100-2815-cd750bbed046.vmem.WRITELOCK
>>> Mirus_XP-000001.vmdk.WRITELOCK
>>> Mirus_XP.vmdk.READLOCK
>>>
>>> Should I be able to merely delete them and start up?
>>>
>>> I'm currently backing the dir up before changing anything.
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