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Terraform: “Error acquiring the state lock” Error

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PROBLEM

When running terraform plan, the following error is thrown:-

Acquiring state lock. This may take a few moments...

Error: Error locking state: Error acquiring the state lock: writing "gs://my/bucket/terraform.tfstate/default.tflock" failed: googleapi: Error 412: Precondition Failed, conditionNotMet
Lock Info:
  ID:        1234567890
  Path:      gs://my/bucket/folder/terraform.tfstate/default.tflock
  Operation: migration destination state
  Who:       mike@machine
  Version:   0.12.12
  Created:   2019-10-30 12:44:36.410366 +0000 UTC
  Info:      

Terraform acquires a state lock to protect the state from being written
by multiple users at the same time. Please resolve the issue above and try
again. For most commands, you can disable locking with the "-lock=false"
flag, but this is not recommended.

SOLUTION

One way is to disable locking by passing -lock=false flag.

However, if you are sure the lock isn’t properly released, to perform a force unlock, run this command:

terraform force-unlock [LOCK_ID]

In this case…

terraform force-unlock 1234567890

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