Thanks Bryan,

It's now resumed it's not particularly critical task:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/William_Avery_Bot

Will

On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 at 21:45, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 3:27 PM William Avery <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got the email below telling me that my cron job running as
> william-avery-bot had throw an error, and I noticed that the Grid job that
> it kicks off hasn't run since.
> >
> > I tried deleting the job using the instructions at
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Grid#Stopping_jobs_with_%E2%80%98qdel%E2%80%99_and_%E2%80%98jstop%E2%80%99
> but it appeared "stuck".
>
> I have "force deleted" your job using my Toolforge admin rights.
>
>   $ sudo qdel -f 9999749
>   root forced the deletion of job 9999749
>
> The Toolforge grid engine had numerous problems yesterday which led to
> the scheduler losing track of the state of many jobs. Brooke did
> several rounds of looking for these and cleaning the queue state, but
> obviously yours was not cleaned up in that process. Thank you for your
> report, and I hope you can get your tool back into its proper working
> state.
>
> Bryan
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> Principal Software Engineer                               Boise, ID USA
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