{"slug": "please-force-delete-a-broken-space-stuck-building-400-on-all-operations", "title": "Please force-delete a broken Space — stuck \"Building\", 400 on all operations", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "Hello, my Space `kayinda/rxsteward`\n\nis 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`\n\n, 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`\n\nfrom your end so I can reuse the name? Thank you.\n\n[hysts](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/hysts)\n2\nHi [@Kayinda](/u/kayinda) , thank you for reporting this. I shared the issue with the infrastructure team, and it should be resolved now.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/please-force-delete-a-broken-space-stuck-building-400-on-all-operations", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/please-force-delete-a-broken-space-stuck-building-400-on-all-operations/177037#post_2", "published_at": "2026-06-22 09:06:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-22 09:15:32.215176+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Hugging Face", "kayinda", "hysts", "rxsteward"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/please-force-delete-a-broken-space-stuck-building-400-on-all-operations", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/please-force-delete-a-broken-space-stuck-building-400-on-all-operations.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/please-force-delete-a-broken-space-stuck-building-400-on-all-operations.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/please-force-delete-a-broken-space-stuck-building-400-on-all-operations.jsonld"}}