# Issues removing a node from a queue

**URL:** <https://community.openpbs.org/t/issues-removing-a-node-from-a-queue/1356>\
**Category:** Users/Site Administrators\
**Created:** [December 17, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/issues-removing-a-node-from-a-queue/1356 "2018-12-17T14:28:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![layi.salako](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.openpbs.org/layi.salako/32/177_2.png) [@layi.salako](https://community.openpbs.org/u/layi.salako)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/issues-removing-a-node-from-a-queue/1356/1 "2018-12-17T14:28:55Z")

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Hello Everyone,

my users currently cannot run jobs on our cluster. I traced the issue to a faulty node and I tried to delete the node but I am getting the error below.

[root@server548 ~]# qmgr -c “delete node term079”  
qmgr obj=term079 svr=default: Cannot delete busy object  
qmgr: Error (15027) returned from server

I have no idea how to resolve this issue as I am new to HPC

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**Author:** ![adarsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@adarsh](https://community.openpbs.org/u/adarsh)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/issues-removing-a-node-from-a-queue/1356/2 "2018-12-17T19:21:20Z")

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If you have jobs running in a queue - then queue cannot be deleted  
If you have jobs running on a node - then the node cannot be deleted.

Please run the below command and see whether there are any jobs on that node

- pbsnodes term079
- pbsnodes term079 | grep -i job