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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Try pinging your droplet, is it still up? If not, please wait for a few minutes until its status is updated on the hypervisor.
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>
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