# Service Won't Stop

**URL:** <https://community.sonatype.com/t/service-wont-stop/6645>\
**Category:** Sonatype Nexus Repository\
**Created:** [June 1, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/service-wont-stop/6645 "2021-06-01T20:42:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![cbadman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9c0ed/32.png) [@cbadman](https://community.sonatype.com/u/cbadman)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/service-wont-stop/6645/1 "2021-06-01T20:42:34Z")

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Hey Everyone,  
I can’t get Nexus to stop after I set it up to run as a service.

service nexus start

Works fine.

```
service nexus status
service nexus stop

```

Do not work. Both just return the “nexus is not running”. Same thing happens if I run the nexus script from the bin directory. Below is the bash verbose output from when I ran the command.

```
+ exec su - nexus /opt/nexus-3.30.1-01/bin/nexus stop
Shutting down nexus
+ exec /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_121/bin/java -server -Dinstall4j.jvmDir=/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_121 -Dexe4j.moduleName=/opt/nexus-3.30.1-01/bin/nexus -classpath /opt/nexus-3.30.1-01/.install4j/i4jruntime.jar:/opt/nexus-3.30.1-01/lib/boot/nexus-main.jar:/opt/nexus-3.30.1-01/lib/boot/activation-1.1.1.jar:/opt/nexus-3.30.1-01/lib/boot/jakarta.xml.bind-api-2.3.3.jar:/opt/nexus-3.30.1-01/lib/boot/jaxb-runtime-2.3.3.jar:/opt/nexus-3.30.1-01/lib/boot/txw2-2.3.3.jar:/opt/nexus-3.30.1-01/lib/boot/istack-commons-runtime-3.0.10.jar:/opt/nexus-3.30.1-01/lib/boot/org.apache.karaf.main-4.2.9.jar:/opt/nexus-3.30.1-01/lib/boot/osgi.core-6.0.0.jar:/opt/nexus-3.30.1-01/lib/boot/org.apache.karaf.specs.activator-4.2.9.jar:/opt/nexus-3.30.1-01/lib/boot/org.apache.karaf.diagnostic.boot-4.2.9.jar:/opt/nexus-3.30.1-01/lib/boot/org.apache.karaf.jaas.boot-4.2.9.jar com.install4j.runtime.launcher.UnixLauncher stop
nexus is not running.

```

I’m running nexus-3.30.1-01 on RHEL Kernel 2.6.32-754.33.1.el6.x86\_64.

Nothing happens in the nexus logs when I issue the stop command.

I have to kill the process to get it to stop.

Where else can I look for info/logs to see what the problem might be?

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**Author:** ![rseddon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/community.sonatype.com/rseddon/32/341_2.png) [@rseddon](https://community.sonatype.com/u/rseddon)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/service-wont-stop/6645/2 "2021-06-02T12:24:54Z")

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It might be a problem with the PID file:

[https://help.sonatype.com/display/NXRM3/Run+as+a+Service#RunasaService-PIDFile](https://help.sonatype.com/display/NXRM3/Run+as+a+Service#RunasaService-PIDFile)

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**Author:** ![cbadman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9c0ed/32.png) [@cbadman](https://community.sonatype.com/u/cbadman)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/service-wont-stop/6645/3 "2021-06-02T12:49:34Z")

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Definitely. There’s just a plus sign in there. hmmmmmmm