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

I usually use jenkins-cli in such cases. You can download the jar from a page http://your-jenkins-host:PORT/cli . Then run

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar delete-builds name_of_job_to_delete hanging_job_number

Auxiliary info:

You may also pass a range of builds like 350:400. General help available by running

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar help

Context command help for delete-builds by

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar delete-builds