Cancel a task but the Tasks view goes to a wrong state and always shows a running icon

[testforstephen]

[IanSmith1337]

I've noticed that this issue also occurs when you remove the Gradle task's terminal.

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Suggestions

• Workaround: click the Refresh Tasks button (⟳) in the Gradle Projects view to clear the stuck running icon.
  • This forces the extension to re-query Gradle and update task states.
• Ensure you’re on the latest version of the VS Code Gradle extension; fixes around task cancellation land periodically.

Duplicate Issue

• This appears to be the same as “Task cancellation state hanging in explorer”: Task cancellation state hanging in explorer #118

Other references with high confidence

• stopping a task sometimes doesn’t work (spinning icon remains after killing terminal): stopping a task sometimes doesn't work #1132

Other references with low confidence

• Cancelling a running tasks hangs (possible Gradle-side issue; gathering more info): Cancelling a running tasks hangs #843 (comment)

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