NAME

       lxc-stop - stop the application running inside a container

SYNOPSIS

       lxc-stop {-n name} [-W] [-r] [-t timeout] [-k] [--nokill] [--nolock]

DESCRIPTION

       lxc-stop  reboots,  cleanly  shuts  down, or kills all the processes inside the container. By default, it
       will request a clean shutdown of the container by sending lxc.signal.halt (defaults  to  SIGPWR)  to  the
       container's  init process, waiting up to 60 seconds for the container to exit, and then returning. If the
       container fails to cleanly exit in 60 seconds, it will be sent the lxc.signal.stop (defaults to  SIGKILL)
       to force it to shut down. A request to reboot will send the lxc.signal.reboot (defaults to SIGINT) to the
       container's init process.

       The  [-W],  [-r],  [-k]  and [--nokill] options specify the action to perform.  [-W] indicates that after
       performing the specified action, lxc-stop should immediately exit, while [-t TIMEOUT] specifies the maxi‐
       mum amount of time to wait for the container to complete the shutdown or reboot.

OPTIONS

       -r,--reboot
              Request a reboot of the container.

       -k,--kill
              Rather than requesting a clean shutdown of the container, explicitly kill all tasks  in  the  con‐
              tainer. This is the legacy lxc-stop behavior.

       --nokill
              Only request a clean shutdown, do not kill the container tasks if the clean shutdown fails.

       --nolock
              This  option  avoids the use of any of the API lxc locking, and should only be used if lxc-stop is
              hanging due to a bad system state.

       -W,--nowait
              Simply perform the requestion action (reboot, shutdown, or hard kill) and exit.

       -t,--timeout TIMEOUT
              Wait TIMEOUT seconds before hard-stopping the container.

EXIT VALUE

       0      The container was successfully stopped.

       1      An error occurred while stopping the container.

       2      The specified container exists but was not running.

DIAGNOSTIC

       The container was not found
              The specified container was not created before with the lxc-create command.

SEE ALSO

       lxc(7), lxc-create(1), lxc-copy(1), lxc-destroy(1), lxc-start(1), lxc-stop(1),  lxc-execute(1),  lxc-con‐
       sole(1),  lxc-monitor(1),  lxc-wait(1),  lxc-cgroup(1),  lxc-ls(1),  lxc-info(1),  lxc-freeze(1), lxc-un‐
       freeze(1), lxc-attach(1), lxc.conf(5)

                                                   2025-06-09                                        lxc-stop(1)