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you mention

pulumi refresh

twice, but was one of those mentions supposed to be

pulumi up

?

Not really,

pulumi up

seems to be working as intended reporting back the error message. But

pulumi refresh

should sync the states correctly, which doesn't appear to be happening.

I’m confused then because you say that refresh shows no changes, but then you also posted an error message. So is it failing on the error message or is it saying no changes? It can’t be both

The error message shows when I run

pulumi up

because pulumi thinks the droplet is still live when in fact it no longer exists. From my understanding, sometimes the state of pulumi vs what is actually provisioned can go out of sync for various reasons.

pulumi refresh

is supposed to fix such discrepancy but for some reason, it doesn't seem to be doing anything on digital ocean droplets.

When you run refresh what does it show on the right hand side for the droplet resource? I think you can also add a parameter to show a detailed diff

nothing appears on the right side of the droplet. (the plan column is empty) when I select details, this shows:

details
  pulumi:pulumi:Stack: (same)

Try —diff and —show-sames

Thanks @icy-controller-6092! I got it working by force deleting the state. https://www.pulumi.com/docs/cli/commands/pulumi_state_delete/

Nice, you could also raise a bug for the digital ocean provider. It should have refreshed state properly