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Cannot restart instance

Summary:

My Ubuntu instance has been stuck for 2 days, I cannot force it to stop or restart since it returns an error that it is currently being modified, try again later.

I have tried both through the web interface and through Cloud Shell

Content (required):

instance is currently being modified, try again later

Version (include the version you are using, if applicable):


Code Snippet (add any code snippets that support your topic, if applicable):

oci compute instance action --debug --action STOP --instance-id ******

Result:

DEBUG:oci_cli.cli_metrics: 2023-09-05 12:15:20.260462: Metrics is enabled with value: /etc/extensions/climetrics

DEBUG:oci_cli.cli_metrics: 2023-09-05 12:15:20.260732: Metric being logged: num_invocations

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