Full reindex process is already running even after rebooting SQL

Question

I have tried this solution:

Full reindex process is already running

But that does not work, I still get the same error. The error started because the client server was full.

I have cleared space on the server and removed the lock files. I even tried rebooting the SQL server. (No help)

I cleared my var/ directory of everything.

I restarted Apache

I restarted MySQL (It's on a separate box)

I have tried via command line and Magerun

Here is some output

magerun index:reindex catalog_product_attribute


  Reindex  


Full reindex process is already running.

I have tried running the command as root as well

 php indexer.php reindexall
Full reindex process is already running.

Answer 1

You might have a correctly set up Magento environment. My guess is that your {docRoot}/var directory is writable by your server user, but not by your CLI user. Because of that Magento will switch to using /tmp/magento for var. So the CLI may be trying to write to /tmp/magento/var/locks/reindex.lock. Try su-ing to the web user and see if it works

The final solution ended being the cron running at root which was locking the lock files.