# What Should I Do If Pods in the Terminating State Cannot Be Deleted?

#### Symptom

When a node is in the Unavailable state, CCE migrates container pods on the node and sets the pods running on the node to the Terminating state.

After the node is restored, the pods in the Terminating state are automatically deleted.

Some pods are in the Terminating state occasionally.

The pods cannot be deleted by running the kubectl delete pods command.

    kubectl delete pods httpd-app-6df58645c6-cxgcm

#### Solution

You can run the following command to forcibly delete the pods created in any ways:

    kubectl delete pods <pod> --grace-period=0 --force

Therefore, you can run the following command to delete the pod httpd-app-6df58645c6-cxgcm:

    kubectl delete pods httpd-app-6df58645c6-cxgcm --grace-period=0 --force

Parent topic: Workload Abnormalities