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Please force-delete a broken Space — stuck "Building", 400 on all operations

A user reported that their Hugging Face Space 'kayinda/rxsteward' was stuck in a 'Building' state and could not be deleted via the web UI or API due to a 403 error. Hugging Face staff member hysts confirmed the issue was resolved after sharing it with the infrastructure team.

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Please force-delete a broken Space — stuck "Building", 400 on all operations
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Hello, my Space kayinda/rxsteward

is stuck in a broken state. It shows “Building” indefinitely, and every attempt to delete it fails — the web UI gives no working delete, and the API (delete_repo

, with a valid Write token) returns a 403/permission error. Recreating or renaming to that name also fails with: 400 Invalid input: expected object, received undefined → at metadata / compute / service. Could you please force-delete kayinda/rxsteward

from your end so I can reuse the name? Thank you.

[hysts](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/hysts)

2 Hi @Kayinda , thank you for reporting this. I shared the issue with the infrastructure team, and it should be resolved now.

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