I’ve had a couple Windows jobs stuck in “Booting virtual machine” for a couple hours now.
Eg: https://travis-ci.com/DataDog/puppet-datadog-agent/builds/125586532
Is this due to a known problem?
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Ruby is not supported on Windows. It is not immediately clear to me why we are not rejecting this build request sooner, but I advise you to cancel this build.
I’m aware Ruby is not supported (that’s why we have custom install steps), but I was hoping that the machine booting would be 
I had already cancelled and restarted one of the two jobs before and it didn’t work, and just did again with the same luck.
It’s possible that language: minimal isn’t supported either.
Could you try with language: bash or language: shell ?
See https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/reference/windows/#supported-languages.
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That was the problem. Thanks!
Probably the job should error out if the language is not supported 
Thanks again anyway!
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Glad to hear this worked.
Indeed, we’ll be following up internally to prevent this from happening with unsupported languages on Windows.
Thank you for your understanding!
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