Enter MySQL
mysql -u your_user -p
2) Let's see the list of locked tables
mysql> show open tables where in_use>0;
3) Let's see the list of the current processes, one of them is locking your table(s)
mysql> show processlist;
4) Kill one of these processes
mysql>kill put_process_id_here;
select concat('KILL ',id,';') from information_schema.processlist where user='root'; +------------------------+ | concat('KILL ',id,';') +------------------------+ | KILL 3101; | KILL 2946;