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We have recently merged into a branch that should be kicking off a build, but the last build was 5 days ago. If you have access to our account, the branch is x-pipeline and you should be able to find the details from that.
I’m about to manually kick off a build, but this is a serious issue because that is our release branch. How should I be debugging this - for example? There are no errors …

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Same problem here. Branch isn’t kicking off a build.

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GitHub was not sending us Webhooks (that they are calling notifications)

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/nf4gcjtcsqdb

We are monitoring.

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How can I trigger a manual build of that workflow in the meantime? Do I have to curl something? Hopefully I can do it from the web interface …

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The Trigger a new Build by Project (preview) API endpoint should allow you to kick off the workflow

https://circleci.com/docs/api/#trigger-a-new-build-by-project-preview

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Ok thanks Joe

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You said 5 days, so your issue may be different. Let me know if that don’t work and I can take a look.

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That was the last time we released, before this morning. Safe to say it’s the same issue - thanks.

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In other words, that was the last merge into the branch. So no builds would have been expected between then and the merge from an hour ago

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Got it, thanks for clarifying :slight_smile:

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A useful script to manually trigger builds on arbitrary projects / branches as a workaround:

#!/bin/bash -e

# Usage:
# 
#   1. set $CIRCLE_API_TOKEN
#   2. run `./trigger-build <account> <oroject> [<branch>]`
#
#   For https://github.com/iambob/myfirstproject:
#
#       trigger_build iambob myfirstproject
#
#   ... will build master
_account=$1 # e.g. github user name or organization name
_project=$2  # e.g. my_repo_name
_branch=${3:-"master"}   #optional, defaults to master.

_circle_token=${CIRCLE_API_TOKEN}



echo "Triggering build of $_project ($_branch)."
trigger_build_url="https://circleci.com/api/v1.1/project/github/${_account}/${_project}/build?circle-token=${_circle_token}"
post_data="{ \"branch\": \"${_branch}\"}"

curl -s \
--header "Accept: application/json" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data "${post_data}" \
-request POST "${trigger_build_url}"
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Thank you for sharing!