Problem : I was trying to delete/purge a job in hudson from front end[UI]. So I clicked on the job and then "Delete Project". The window opened up saying "Checking if this job can be deleted" and this went forever. I researched over the internet and could't find a concrete answer and so I decided to troubleshoot this issue on my own.
Solution :
1) Login to your master hudson server.
2) Find your hudson-cli.jar on the machine.
I ran "find / -iname hudson-cli.jar" to locate it on my machine and found it at
/var/lib/hudson/war/webapp/WEB-INF/hudson-cli.jar
3) Now I played around with this jar to get "help" to understand the commands.
To get exhaustive list of all those commands, run:
java -jar hudson-cli.jar -s http://10.0.5.1:8080 help --username <username> --password
<password> &> commands
4) I went through the list of commands and found the command, delete-job and utilised it in the
below manner:
java -jar hudson-cli.jar -s http://10.0.5.1:8080 delete-job test_project --username <username>
--password <password>
This fixed the issue at my end.
Solution :
1) Login to your master hudson server.
2) Find your hudson-cli.jar on the machine.
I ran "find / -iname hudson-cli.jar" to locate it on my machine and found it at
/var/lib/hudson/war/webapp/WEB-INF/hudson-cli.jar
3) Now I played around with this jar to get "help" to understand the commands.
To get exhaustive list of all those commands, run:
java -jar hudson-cli.jar -s http://10.0.5.1:8080 help --username <username> --password
<password> &> commands
4) I went through the list of commands and found the command, delete-job and utilised it in the
below manner:
java -jar hudson-cli.jar -s http://10.0.5.1:8080 delete-job test_project --username <username>
--password <password>
This fixed the issue at my end.
