By airbend65
I’m clicking “Power On” and it works, however when I try to access my console it says that the server needs to be on. I check again and the server is once again, off. How can I fix this?
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Now it shows the login for Ubuntu, then glitches out and says “Your droplet needs to be running to access the console”
As andrew.kreps mentioned, contact support. There may be some software that is starting up on boot, which is causing the server to crash. What exactly is on the server?
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