ActiveMQ KahaDB always locking and waiting

do following

kill java process for active mq, open task manager -> go to process -> check for java -> and right click and say end process

then go to <activemq_install_directory>/data/kahadb

and delete lock file which gets generated

try starting activemq again

for me this works every time I face this issue

java multithreading activemq

had the same problem.there was no other java services / brokers up and running.the problem was pretty stupid -

make sure that the user you are using has permission to write to the path of the lock file.

java multithreading activemq

The only solution I came across to release this lock is-

Goto services.msc
Stop ActiveMQ forever (let StartUp type be Automatic)
you will see that the lock file disappears
delete the datafolder itself
Restart apache-activemq-5.10.0-bin\apache-activemq-5.10.0\bin\win64\activemq.bat (Not services.msc)
You are good to go

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