How to stop an unstoppable zombie job on Jenkins without restarting the server?

Question

Our Jenkins server has a job that has been running for three days, but is not doing anything. Clicking the little X in the corner does nothing, and the console output log do

Answer 1

If you have an unstoppable Pipeline job, try the following:

1. Abort the job by clicking the red X next to the build progress bar
2. Click on "Pause/resume" on the build to pause
3. Click on "Pause/resume" again to resume the build

Jenkins will realize that the job should be terminated and stops the build