Error Invalid VM group

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Guys every time I try to use “fly scale count 0 -a appname”
I got …
Error Invalid VM group:

It happens to multiple deploys, my fly status looks normal here sample

App
Name = little-meadow-8343
Owner = personal
Version = 0
Status = running
Hostname = little-meadow-8343.fly.dev
Platform = nomad

Instances
ID PROCESS VERSION REGION DESIRED STATUS HEALTH CHECKS RESTARTCREATED
b6c5b894 worker 0 sin run running 0 14h58m ago

Please suggest.

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I also ran into this issue trying to scale down a test app and have so far not been able to figure out how to specify a VM group or otherwise get around this; there doesn’t appear to be a relevant flag

CLI version: flyctl v0.0.403 linux/amd64 Commit: 4386a944 BuildDate: 2022-10-02T15:52:19Z

3

Does your fly.toml have a [processes] section? (docs)

I believe those are called process “groups” and you may need to specify which group you want to scale.

Apps can get in a weird state as well if you used to have [processes] and then took them away later as well.

4

Yes indeed!

myfly.toml got

[processes]
worker = “python3 main.py”

per your suggestion correct way to scale down is fly scale count worker=0

That solved the problem, thank you very much!

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