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Shutdown fails to shutdown droplet
- Posted December 2, 2013
I can’t shutdown my droplet it stays in the active state even after sudo -r shutdown now it still doesn’t shutdown
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There’s a difference between -h (halt) and -P (power off). You really want to power off your droplet rather halting. For a KVM VPS (droplet) it should have the same behavior but it’s possible that something is not configured properly. I recommend you to always use “shutdown -P now” or even simpler: “poweroff”. <br> <br>As per the shutdown manual: <br> <br> -h Requests that the system be either halted or powered off after <br> it has been brought down, with the choice as to which left up to <br> the system. <br> <br> -P Requests that the system be powered off after it has been <br> brought down. <br> <br>Shortcut commands: <br>shutdown -h now = halt <br>shutdown -r now = reboot <br>shutdown -P now = poweroff
sudo shutdown -h now is that i typed and it said it was going to shutdown. I think i made a mis type.
The -r option to shutdown performs a reboot, thus your droplet shuts down but immediately starts again. <br> <br>The command you want is “sudo shutdown -P now” or “sudo shutdown -h now”. <br> <br> <br> <br>
Have you tried: <br><pre>sudo shutdown -h now</pre>
Try pinging your droplet, is it still up? If not, please wait for a few minutes until its status is updated on the hypervisor.