I do have a SharePoint (2013) site collection that is stuck in read only mode due to a backup that was either interrupted or didn't terminated properly.
I'm unable to unlock from :
- Site Quotas and Lock in Central Administration (option is greyed-out)
- Stsadm : operation completes successfully but no change
- Using PowerShell : same behavior as stsadm
I reviewed the associated content database to ensure it was not in single user mode neither in read-only which was not the case. Disk space is not an issue neither.
SOLUTION!
PS C:\Users\root> $Admin = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSiteAdministration('http://root.toto.com')
PS C:\Users\root> $Admin.ClearMaintenanceMode()
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