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Nexus3 Unable to update instance pid: No locks available "nexus"

I have a nexus3 instance running inside a docker container with the /nexus-data directory mounted as a volume on some network attached storage. The docker container died unexpectidly and now wont come up as it throws the error 

Unable to update instance pid: No locks available "nexus"

How do I get this to start up again

Nexus Repository ManagerOSS 3.6.0-02

Solution

  • Turns out it was nothing to do with nexus itself. The NFS mounts got messed up and nexus was unable to aquire a lock