Hi David,

This is pretty common in the case of workflows. When a workflow step fails, the next job in the workflow will be set to the "paused" state and all jobs downstream of the paused job will remain in the "new" state until corrective action is taken. The current query for finding jobs-ready-to-run (if tracking jobs in the database, which is automatically enabled for multiprocess Galaxy configurations) ignores 'new' state jobs whose inputs are not ready, so these jobs sitting around should not cause any harm.

--nate

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:25 PM, David Hoover <hooverdm@helix.nih.gov> wrote:

I have many jobs stuck in the 'new' state on our local Galaxy instance. The jobs can't be stopped using the Admin->Manage jobs tool. First, does anyone know why a job would get stuck in the 'new' state for weeks? I have cleaned things up by manually setting their states to 'error' in the MySQL database. Is there a better way of dealing with 'new' jobs?

BTW, our Galaxy instance was updated about two weeks ago.

Wondering,
David Hoover
Helix Systems Staff
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