GitHub Actions workflow stuck in "queued" state and cannot be cancelled

[Baptiste44110]

Hello GitHub Support,

I'm encountering an issue where my workflow is stuck in the queued state for over an hour. This is a public repository, and I am not part of any GitHub organization.

Attempts to cancel the workflow fail with the error: Failed to cancel workflow.

This issue started recently — previously, workflows would run immediately under the same setup. I've verified:

• GitHub Actions system status shows no reported incidents.
• My YAML workflow file hasn't changed.
• I'm using only the default GitHub-hosted runners.

Would you be able to investigate what's causing the blockage or help manually cancel the run?

Thanks in advance!

[phracek]

See e.g. here https://github.com/sclorg/betka/actions/runs/15270059850/job/42943356222

I used ubuntu-latest. It does not work for GitHub organization as well.

[pgodinhofortis]

This happens, use the Force Cancel API to cancel the job

https://docs.github.com/en/rest/actions/workflow-runs?apiVersion=2022-11-28#force-cancel-a-workflow-run

[jay-dizzale]

We have the same issue. The suggested fix with force-cancel triggers an error:

{
  "message": "Cannot cancel a workflow re-run that has not yet queued."
  "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/actions/workflow-runs#force-cancel-a-workflow-run",
  "status": "409"
}

[armandomejiam]

I'm having the same issue, force-cancel didn't work for me

{"message":"Failed to cancel workflow run","documentation_url":"https://docs.github.com/rest/actions/workflow-runs#force-cancel-a-workflow-run","status":"500"}

gh: Failed to cancel workflow run (HTTP 500)

[sebastiantf]

facing the same issue. this needs to be fixed