hashicorp/nomad · error

deleting job recommendatons failed: %v

Error message

deleting job recommendatons failed: %v

What it means

During job deletion, removing recommendations associated with the job failed; the wrapped error from deleteRecommendationsForJob aborts the delete transaction.

Source

Thrown at nomad/state/state_store.go:2109

		return fmt.Errorf("deleting job summary failed: %v", err)
	}
	if err := txn.Insert("index", &IndexEntry{"job_summary", index}); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("index update failed: %v", err)
	}

	// Delete the job submission
	if err := s.deleteJobSubmission(job, txn); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("deleting job submission failed: %v", err)
	}

	// Delete any remaining job scaling policies
	if err := s.deleteJobScalingPolicies(index, job, txn); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("deleting job scaling policies failed: %v", err)
	}

	// Delete any job recommendations
	if err := s.deleteRecommendationsByJob(index, txn, job); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("deleting job recommendatons failed: %v", err)
	}

	// Delete the scaling events
	if _, err = txn.DeleteAll("scaling_event", "id", namespace, jobID); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("deleting job scaling events failed: %v", err)
	}

	// Delete task group volume claims
	if err = s.deleteTaskGroupHostVolumeClaimByNamespaceAndJob(index, txn, namespace, jobID); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("deleting job volume claims failed: %v", err)
	}

	if err := txn.Insert("index", &IndexEntry{"scaling_event", index}); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("index update failed: %v", err)
	}

	return nil
}

View on GitHub (pinned to 482b49bf1a)

Solutions

1. Retry the job deletion
2. Inspect server logs for the underlying recommendation cleanup error

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at nomad/state/state_store.go:2109 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of hashicorp/nomad@482b49bf1a (2026-09-04). Data as JSON: /api/errors/09d71c36a2e7a247. Report an issue: GitHub.