Force Stop Proxmox LXC Rumi, November 21, 2020 First try to unlock the pct (assuming your troubled container is 101): pct unlock 101 if it works just stop and start again the vm. if it does’nt work (my case) try to stop with this lxc-stop --name 101 if it’s does’nt work (my case) you can force stop with kill command ps ax | grep lxc then kill the process with your id (101 for me) kill pid (replace pid by the process name). After that you can just launch again you’r vm Administrations Configurations (Linux) Proxmox Proxmox