# Server shutdown problem
**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/server-shutdown-problem/1673
**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions
**Created:** [September 21, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/server-shutdown-problem/1673 "2011-09-21T23:31:38Z")
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### Author:  [@slnp](https://forums.percona.com/u/slnp)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/server-shutdown-problem/1673/1 "2011-09-21T23:31:38Z")
Hi All,
I shutdown our mysql server with service mysql shutdown as normal however I had this problem:
110922 4:34:08 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Normal shutdown
110922 4:34:08 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events
110922 4:34:10 InnoDB: Starting shutdown…
110922 4:51:58 [Note] Plugin ‘FEDERATED’ is disabled.
110922 4:52:04 InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally!
110922 4:56:35 InnoDB: Starting an apply batch of log records to the database…
This same issue also happened earlier today with a normal shutdown.
What could be causing this?
Thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@slnp](https://forums.percona.com/u/slnp)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2011, 10:58am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/server-shutdown-problem/1673/2 "2011-09-22T10:58:51Z")
To elaborate on this I shut the server down normally with out any errors however when I start it starts doing recovery and I can’t tell why.
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### Author:  [@sterin71](https://forums.percona.com/u/sterin71)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/server-shutdown-problem/1673/3 "2011-09-23T05:10:26Z")
Does the error log say anything else at startup?
What is your setting for:
innodb\_fast\_shutdown
You can try setting this variable to 0 (which you can change on a running server) to force InnoDB to perform a complete flush at shutdown (but note that that can take a lot of time if you have a large highly volatile database).