Stop redis server. Neither shutdown nor stop works

Question

I want to stop the redis server and it just keeps going and going. I am using redis-2.6.7

Check that it is running:

redis-server

It say

Answer 1

I can't reproduce the problem anymore, but shutdown NOSAVE helped me, when I was playing with redis and couldn't get it to shut down:

redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379> shutdown
(error) ERR Errors trying to SHUTDOWN. Check logs.
127.0.0.1:6379> shutdown NOSAVE
not connected>