hashicorp/nomad · error

deleting job summary failed: %v

Error message

deleting job summary failed: %v

What it means

While deleting a job, removing its job_summary entries from memdb failed; the wrapped DeleteAll error aborts the delete transaction before the summary is removed.

Source

Thrown at nomad/state/state_store.go:2091

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

	// Delete allocs associated with the job
	if err := s.deleteAllocsForJobTxn(txn, index, namespace, job.ID); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	// Cleanup plugins registered by this job, before we delete the summary
	err = s.deleteJobFromPlugins(index, txn, job)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("deleting job from plugin: %v", err)
	}

	// Delete the job summary
	if _, err = txn.DeleteAll("job_summary", "id", namespace, jobID); err != nil {
		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)

View on GitHub (pinned to 482b49bf1a)

Solutions

1. Retry the delete operation
2. Check server logs for state store errors
3. Verify disk/memdb health if deletes keep failing

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at nomad/state/state_store.go:2091 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/08f97bfd627905d4. Report an issue: GitHub.