# disconnecting clients

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/disconnecting-clients/5847>\
**Category:** Percona Server for MySQL 5.6\
**Created:** [September 6, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/disconnecting-clients/5847 "2017-09-06T14:43:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![lupacexi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@lupacexi](https://forums.percona.com/u/lupacexi)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/disconnecting-clients/5847/1 "2017-09-06T14:43:16Z")

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[Note] Forcefully disconnecting 5 remaining clients  
[Warning] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Forcing close of thread 1229 user: ‘b\_user’  
[Warning] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Forcing close of thread 1231 user: ‘b\_user’  
[Warning] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Forcing close of thread 1228 user: ‘b\_user’  
[Warning] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Forcing close of thread 1273 user: ‘b\_user’  
[Warning] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Forcing close of thread 1270 user: ‘b\_user’

why is this happening?

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**Author:** ![jrivera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jrivera/32/13_2.png) [@jrivera](https://forums.percona.com/u/jrivera)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/disconnecting-clients/5847/2 "2017-09-07T23:57:47Z")

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Looks like MySQL is in a shutdown phase. Check if someone sent a shutdown signal to the MySQL server.