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 doesn't show anything either. I've checked on our build servers and the job doesn't actually seem to be running at all.

Is there a way to tell jenkins that the job is "done", by editing some file or lock or something? Since we have a lot of jobs we don't really want to restart the server.

Answer 1

I had also the same problem and fix it via Jenkins Console.

Go to "Manage Jenkins" > "Script Console" and run a script:

 Jenkins .instance.getItemByFullName("JobName")
        .getBuildByNumber(JobNumber)
        .finish(hudson.model.Result.ABORTED, new java.io.IOException("Aborting build")); 

You'll have just specify your JobName and JobNumber.