Connecting through VM instances giving a lock error

Question

I have created a vm instance running multichain as the first server and the host linux system as the second server. Although I am able to SSH from host to VM and back successfully, I see the following error, when typing in, multichaind CHAIN_NAME@<IP ADDRESS:PORT>:

"IO Error: lock /Lock:permissions.db/LOCK: ~./PATH Resource temporarily address

ERROR: Coultn initialize permission database for network CHAIN_NAME"

I believe I have been able to connect through to the network, but some permissions are not allowing the conection. This is because the last time I was able to go through the whole tutorial, however, this time I couldn't find an address when the chain in server 1 was initialized using the above command

Could you please suggest?.

Answer 1

It sounds like the blockchain is already running on that node, and this is the error message that appears when you try to run it again in a separate message. (We need to improve the error message, of course.)

Does that make sense?