# Helm uninstall not working

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/helm-uninstall-not-working/17803>\
**Category:** Percona Operator for MySQL\
**Created:** [October 2, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/helm-uninstall-not-working/17803 "2022-10-02T18:10:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 2, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/helm-uninstall-not-working/17803/4 "2022-10-02T20:24:52Z")

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Dear @Slava_Sarzhan,

I completely messed things up. Because I couldn’t use helm uninstall I tried to do this:

> [@Percona XtraDB MySQL Kubernetes Operator uninstallation](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-xtradb-mysql-kubernetes-operator-uninstallation/11832/2):
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> Hey @katajistok , to remove the CR just execute smth like kubectl delete -f deploy/cr.yaml to remove the Operator execute kubectl delete -f deploy/bundle.yaml Probably it is a good idea to add this into docs.

But I didn’t find deploy/cr.yaml file so I run this from here:  
~/.cache/helm/repository/pxc-db-1.11.0.tgz/utar://pxc-db/crds/crd.yaml  
kubectl delete -f crds.yaml  
It was freeze at a point, so I restarted all nodes ☹

But now I get this message during the reinstall process:

root@kubernetes-master-ubuntu:~# helm install my-db percona/pxc-db  
Error: INSTALLATION FAILED: cannot re-use a name that is still in use

root@kubernetes-master-ubuntu:~# helm install my-db2 percona/pxc-db  
Error: INSTALLATION FAILED: create not allowed while custom resource definition is terminating

**Is there any (manual) method with which I can remove everything related to percona(operator) from the k8s?**

Thank you so much!

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