ECS: Racadm Sends "One Instance of Local RACADM is already executing. Exiting current session"

Summary: This article shows how to get the racadm command working if the above message appears.

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Symptoms

Running racadm sometimes fails to run like shown in below example:

admin@ecsnode1:~> sudo -i racadm getversion

One Instance of Local RACADM is already executing. Exiting the current session.

Cause

The racadm likely ran in a previous session and did not finish before bash closed, leaving a PID file that now blocks the command.

Resolution

Check if the below PID file exists:

admin@ecsnode1:~> ls -l /var/run/local_racadm.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Mar 2  2022 /var/run/local_racadm.pid
admin@ecsnode1:~>

Check if anyone else is connected to the node right in this moment, except for yourself:

admin@ecsnode1:~> who
admin    pts/0        Mar  3 14:34 (169.254.1.1)
admin@ecsnode1:~>

If there is no sign of anyone who is running the racadm command in this same moment, remove the PID file:

admin@ecsnode1:~> sudo rm -rf /var/run/local_racadm.pid 
admin@ecsnode1:~>

Confirm it is working now:

admin@ecsnode1:~> sudo -i racadm getversion
Bios Version                     = 2.3.10

iDRAC Version                    = 4.40.40.00

Lifecycle Controller Version     = 4.40.40.00

IDSDM Version                    = NA

Affected Products

ECS

Products

ECS Appliance, ECS Appliance Gen 3, Elastic Cloud Storage
Article Properties
Article Number: 000196996
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 11 Dec 2025
Version:  5
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