[Buildbot-devel] How do you stop a build that isn't there?

[Dan Kegel]

This happened again today.  It's rather distressing.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> Odd problem with v0.8.8-1082-g1554b09 master / buildbot-0.8.7 slave:
>
> On my buildbot at the moment, there are several builds which
> both do and don't exist.  Their status color is white; their build page shows
> a step running, but no 'Stop Build' button even though I'm logged in.
> It's a real job, yet I can't stop it.
>
> I restarted the master recently, and when I did, a build (number N)
> that was in progress
> vanished from the waterfall.  Maybe the ghost job is the new build N, who knows.
>
> This is repeatable in the sense that I just restarted masters and slave,
> and the ghost job got restarted, still in ghost state.
>
> I guess I need to let it finish, since I can't kill it... it's not a
> zombie, it's more like a polterjob!