GitHub Actions Status Stuck on ‘Queued’ — Solution

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Last week, I had an unusual experience where GitHub Actions would simply get stuck at ‘Queued’.

Here is a screenshot of the same, and you can see the workflow, here.

and here is the one which is still stuck for over a week now. I am not able to cancel it either.

In my case, I was using GitHub Pages. So, here is what I did.

1. Obviously, I tried cancelling. It worked on some, but it did not work on others.
2. Next thing, I decided to get rid of the workflow. Because this is GitHub Pages, there is no dedicated workflow folder.
3. So, I switched off the GitHub pages from the repo settings.
4. Then, turned it back on, and triggered a new deployment, and it started worked after that.
5. So far, it’s working just fine.

My theory is, there was some kind of a glitch at that exact hour I was trying. I did check GitHub status page, but it seemed fine. Then, it was fixed a few minutes later, and everything is spinning just fine.

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