Issue
I updated some plugins and restarted the jenkins but now it says:
Please wait while Jenkins is restarting
Your browser will reload automatically when Jenkins is ready.
It is taking too much time (waiting from last 40 minutes). I have only 1 project with around 20 builds. I have restarted jenkins many times and worked fine but now it stucks. Is there any way out to kill/suspend jenkins to avoid this wait?
Solution
I had a very similar issue when using jenkins build-in restart function. To fix it I killed the service (with crossed fingers), but somehow it kept serving the "Please wait" page. I guess it is served by a separate thread, but since i could not see any running java or jenkins processes i restarted the server to stop it.
After reboot jenkins worked but it was not updated. To make it work it I ran the update again and restarted the jenkins service manually - it took less than a minute and worked just fine...
Jenkins seems to have a number of bugs related to restarting, and at least one unresolved: jenkins issue
Answered By - molholm
Answer Checked By - David Goodson (JavaFixing Volunteer)