When trying to call "basexserver stop", nothing happens, it seems to wait

for something or process something. When I call basexserver stop, "java"

appears for a moment in "top", but then it disappears and the command does

not stop. Very frustrating. Calling "basexserver -S", shows the same

behavior -- although you would expect the same message like the one for

"basexserver".

Difficult to guess what’s going on here. My assumption is that there
must be a process waiting for something, and as the "stop" command
tries to gracefully shut shown the server, it won’t do anything.

Using Linux, you could check the list of open files and grep the
result for any basex-related files (eg: lsof | grep -i basex). If
there no database files are touched, it should be a safe bet to simply
kill your server process.