Orphaned Actions run stuck in queued (cannot cancel/force-cancel/delete) — please purge server-side

[jeq]

Summary

We have an orphaned GitHub Actions workflow run that has been stuck in queued since 2026-08-19 with 0 jobs / 0 check runs. UI cancel, REST cancel, REST force-cancel, and DELETE all fail. Please purge/cancel this run server-side.

Details

Field	Value
Organization	AI-Shien (GitHub Free)
Repository	AI-Shien/ai-shien-docs (private)
Run URL	https://github.com/AI-Shien/ai-shien-docs/actions/runs/32216648756
Run ID	32216648756
Workflow	Issue Discord Staff Notify
Workflow ID	333203073
Workflow path	.github/workflows/issue-discord-notify.yml
Check suite ID	87333533990
Event	issues
Head branch / SHA	develop / 578b1f61603fd52c4e0f303d2140c4f82a378bd8
Created / updated	2026-08-19T04:41:06Z (unchanged)
Status	queued, conclusion: null
Jobs / check runs	0

What we tried

1. UI Cancel — fails (cannot cancel)
2. gh run cancel 32216648756 — Cannot cancel a workflow run that is completed
3. POST /repos/AI-Shien/ai-shien-docs/actions/runs/32216648756/cancel — 409 Cannot cancel a workflow run that has not been queued yet.
4. POST .../force-cancel — 409 same message (has not been queued yet)
5. DELETE .../actions/runs/32216648756 — 403 Could not delete the workflow run
6. Check suite rerequest — 404
7. Disable + re-enable the workflow — no change; run still queued

Actor has admin permission on the repository.

Impact / isolation

• Newer runs of the same workflow complete successfully (e.g. run 32933063744 today).
• The stuck run appears to be an isolated corrupted/orphaned record (no jobs ever assigned).
• The workflow has no concurrency group, so other workflows are not blocked — but the run still appears in the Actions UI as permanently queued and cannot be cleaned up by the org.

Request

Please purge or cancel this orphaned workflow run server-side (32216648756 / check suite 87333533990).

We are on GitHub Free, so we cannot open a paid Support portal ticket for Actions; posting here per Free-plan guidance.

Thank you.

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