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Unable to delete repository when database is frozen

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loganathan.balakrishnan (Loganathan Balakrishnan) May 2, 2022, 6:45am 1

Hi Team,

We have upgraded the Nexus application from v3.30.0-01 to v3.38.1-01.
After upgrading, we are not able to delete a repository.
It showing error as " Unable to delete repository when database is frozen… Database not writable on node: xxxx".

Attached the error screenshot.

Please help us to fix the issue.

Regards,
Loganathan

mpiggott (Matthew Piggott) May 2, 2022, 1:15pm 2

This is expected, when your database is frozen it is not writable. Unfreeze it first.

rseddon (Rich Seddon) May 2, 2022, 2:51pm 3

There is a REST API you can run to unfreeze the database (system —> api).

Or you can shut down nxrm and remove the frozen.marker file (sonatype-work/nexus3/db/frozen.marker).

Rich

loganathan.balakrishnan (Loganathan Balakrishnan) May 4, 2022, 3:36pm 4

Hi Rich Seddon,

We have tried the both options, but still facing the same issue.

Regards,
Loganathan

mikhamatta (michael matta) June 5, 2023, 11:23am 5

i have the same problem.
do you have a solution?

Renitta_Aruldhasan (Renitta Aruldhasan) May 9, 2025, 2:24pm 6

Hi,
Still, we face this issue. Is there any solution provided already?

Could anyone help?

Renitta_Aruldhasan (Renitta Aruldhasan) May 30, 2025, 1:05pm 7

Hi,
I have tried to unfreeze the database using API. In addition, tried to delete the frozen.marker file from the path /data/sonatype-work/nexus3.

But still unable to delete the repository. Still facing the same error.

Could somebody help please?