3109802 - SAP HANA System Startup fails with error 'Unable to lockf() the lock file'

When starting the SAP HANA System, errors similar to the following are shown in the command line:

• FAIL: process hdbdaemon HDB Daemon not running
• FAIL: process hdbindexserver HDB Indexserver not running
• FAIL: process hdbcompileserver HDB Compileserver not running

In addition the following error appears in the Linux Syslog (/var/log/messages):

• 2020-09-28T09:15:05.867889-04:00 wwww4p01 SAPXXX_10[4589]: Unable to lockf() the lock file /tmp/.sapstartsrv10_sapstartsrv.log, some other process already has a lock. (Error 11 Resource temporarily unavailable) [/bas/753_REL/src/proj/ntserv/ntservsserver.cpp 3333]
• 2020-09-28T09:15:05.868234-04:00 wwww4p01 SAPXXX_10[4589]: Unable to open trace file sapstartsrv.log. (Error 11 Resource temporarily unavailable) [/bas/753_REL/src/proj/ntserv/ntservsserver.cpp 4559]

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