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This feels like an odd question to be asking here. I get a loading circle when I enable billing on Google Cloud Platform > Compute Engine > VM Instances. I cannot access my VM Instances. I do not know why. I would like to know some command I can use in my cloud shell. So far the only way I've fixed this before is sending a break/fix ticket but, I don't currently have the support level and I'd like to be able to solve this myself.

This has happened to me multiple times.

What command(s) can I use in the Google Cloud SDK Console to fix this?

Whitequill Riclo
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    Problems with enabling billing is a free support item. Open a billing support ticket. First double check your billing account assigned to the project. Make sure there is credit available on the card, address match, etc. https://cloud.google.com/support/billing AND https://console.cloud.google.com/billing – John Hanley Mar 08 '20 at 04:13

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For Bronze support level users of Google Cloud:

I was able to solve my own problem with the gcloud console.

What I did was gcloud init. From there I was able to choose the project that had the frozen web-page with the instance that was running.

Then I was able to run gcloud compute instances list This showed the instance that was running and I wanted to stop. This command also unfroze the spinning circle on the Google Cloud VM Instances web page so I could stop the instance from the web.

I probably could have stopped the instance from the terminal as well but, running gcloud compute instances stop wasn't stopping the instance.

Whitequill Riclo
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