# Unable to remove cluster
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/unable-to-remove-cluster/13032
**Category:** SUSE Rancher Prime
**Created:** [January 17, 2019, 11:07am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/unable-to-remove-cluster/13032 "2019-01-17T11:07:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@mvineza](https://forums.suse.com/u/mvineza)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2019, 11:07am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/unable-to-remove-cluster/13032/1 "2019-01-17T11:07:16Z")
I deleted nodes inside the cluster which were provisioned using Rancher GUI (not imported). After that, I tried to delete the cluster but I was stuck with this message:
Rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = all SubConns are in TransientFailure; Removing host [10.45.20.12] from node lists; rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = all SubConns are in TransientFailure; waiting on cluster-provisioner-controller
I tried connecting to the rancher server kubernetes cluster and tried removing the namespaces associated with that cluster but still no luck.
project-8286p Terminating 180d
Did anyone experienced this? What was the fix?
Thanks…
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### Author:  [@superseb](https://forums.suse.com/u/superseb)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/unable-to-remove-cluster/13032/2 "2019-01-17T18:19:18Z")
It depends a bit on what you did exactly, how many nodes with what roles were in the cluster and what nodes did you delete? Regarding the stuck in terminating, see [https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/14715#issuecomment-407900343](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/14715#issuecomment-407900343) and [https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/admin-settings/removing-rancher/user-cluster-nodes/](https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/admin-settings/removing-rancher/user-cluster-nodes/)
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### Author:  [@mvineza](https://forums.suse.com/u/mvineza)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/unable-to-remove-cluster/13032/3 "2019-01-22T20:05:31Z")
Hello. I deleted all 3 nodes. All of them are etcd, worker, and controlplanes.
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### Author:  [@mvineza](https://forums.suse.com/u/mvineza)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/unable-to-remove-cluster/13032/4 "2019-04-19T00:23:58Z")
I was able to resolve it by pointing my context to the rancher server cluster end doing a “kubectl edit cluster” and replacing that cluster’s finalizers into “finalizers: []”
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### Author:  [@Elan\_Hasson](https://forums.suse.com/u/Elan_Hasson)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2021, 4:19am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/unable-to-remove-cluster/13032/5 "2021-09-11T04:19:49Z")
I tried that but i get a
> { “data”: “404 page not found\n” }
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### Author:  [@tbronchain](https://forums.suse.com/u/tbronchain)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/unable-to-remove-cluster/13032/6 "2021-09-16T09:18:52Z")
Having the same issue since Rancher 2.6
Can’t delete the cluster, nodes are already cleaned and removed. When trying to remove the finalizer, getting the same 404 error.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@cyberfab007](https://forums.suse.com/u/cyberfab007)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/unable-to-remove-cluster/13032/7 "2021-09-23T14:33:36Z")
I am having this same issue with a digital cluster
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### Author:  [@abhi1693](https://forums.suse.com/u/abhi1693)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2021, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/unable-to-remove-cluster/13032/8 "2021-09-27T21:02:43Z")
I have the same issue. I opened up case on Github but there is no response from the team [[2.6] Unable to remove cluster · Issue #34650 · rancher/rancher · GitHub](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/34650)
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### Author:  [@ckwadi](https://forums.suse.com/u/ckwadi)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2021, 7:48am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/unable-to-remove-cluster/13032/9 "2021-10-11T07:48:39Z")
In my case, Rancher was not deleting a cluster in broken etcd state, for days.
What helped was removing finalizers lines from the cluster objects using the following commands:
kubectl edit cluster …
kubectl edit clusters.management …
There are also other CRDs, but I only edited these two.
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### Author:  [@nixer.comp.rancher](https://forums.suse.com/u/nixer.comp.rancher)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/unable-to-remove-cluster/13032/10 "2021-10-23T22:43:17Z")
It does not work.
I tried to create oke cluster failed, then I could not remove it.
the version is 2.6
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### Author:  [@trexmaster](https://forums.suse.com/u/trexmaster)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/unable-to-remove-cluster/13032/11 "2021-10-27T13:09:24Z")
@ckwadi thank you, you’re reponse put me on the right track to delete a cluster that was stuck.
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### Author:  [@2stacks](https://forums.suse.com/u/2stacks)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/unable-to-remove-cluster/13032/12 "2021-10-30T15:22:23Z")
# RKE1
`kubectl edit clusters.rancher.cattle.io/`
# RKE2
`kubectl edit clusters.management.cattle.io/`
For both set `finalizers:` to `finalizers: []`
Using the Rancher GUI worked for RKE1 but gave `{ “data”: “404 page not found\n” }` for RKE2