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Splunk uninstallation / kill command failed -- Connection Refused error on port 22

sancharigupta — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:16:12 GMT

Hi,

I was trying to uninstall Splunk due to some issues in existing installation. I followed the steps for "Uninstall Splunk Enterprise manually" as mentioned on below link:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.0/Installation/UninstallSplunk

But as soon as I executed the below command (as directed on above link), the next moment, I got Connection Refused error port 22 for the server. I don't know how is this related, any hint will be really helpful.

kill -9 ps -ef | grep splunk | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2;}'

Thanks in advance

Re: Splunk uninstallation / kill command failed -- Connection Refused error on port 22

lfedak_splunk — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:12:45 GMT

Hey @sancharigupta, can you let us know what version of Splunk you were using and more about your environment? That might help people diagnose further. Thanks!

Re: Splunk uninstallation / kill command failed -- Connection Refused error on port 22

sancharigupta — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:23:57 GMT

Hi, it was Splunk Enterprise version 6.6.3.

Re: Splunk uninstallation / kill command failed -- Connection Refused error on port 22

s2_splunk — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:40:25 GMT

Are you by any chance SSH'ed in as a user that has 'splunk' in the user name and hence are killing your own SSH session?

Re: Splunk uninstallation / kill command failed -- Connection Refused error on port 22

sancharigupta — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 06:59:12 GMT

HI, That's a great question. But I was logged in as Root that time, do you think it might cause this issue?

Re: Splunk uninstallation / kill command failed -- Connection Refused error on port 22

jfraiberg — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:30:28 GMT

Can you run the ps -ef command without the awk and kill command and list the output for us?

Re: Splunk uninstallation / kill command failed -- Connection Refused error on port 22

sancharigupta — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:01:25 GMT

hi, I am unable to login to the server using ssh now (as I am getting Connection refused error on port 22 after running the Kill command). So unfortunately wont be able to give the output.