unable to cancel, cancel-force or delete a "death" workflowrun

[Rubber1Duck]

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Hallo all,
There is a "death" workflow run in one of my repository for 24 days now.

i tried to cancel this workflow on the website but this runs into error

also tried to canel this with gh, but also with error
`peter@venus:~/RD_RKI_COVID19_DATA$ gh api --method POST -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" /repos/Rubber1Duck/RD_RKI_COVID19_DATA/actions/runs/9421031556/cancel

{
"message": "Failed to cancel workflow run",
"documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/actions/workflow-runs#cancel-a-workflow-run",
"status": "500"
}

gh: Failed to cancel workflow run (HTTP 500)`

also a force-cancel dont work
`peter@venus:~/RD_RKI_COVID19_DATA$ gh api --method POST -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" /repos/Rubber1Duck/RD_RKI_COVID19_DATA/actions/runs/9421031556/force-cancel

{
"message": "Failed to cancel workflow run",
"documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/actions/workflow-runs#force-cancel-a-workflow-run",
"status": "500"
}

gh: Failed to cancel workflow run (HTTP 500)`

last i tried to delete it with no happiness
`peter@venus:~/RD_RKI_COVID19_DATA$ gh api --method DELETE -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" /repos/Rubber1Duck/RD_RKI_COVID19_DATA/actions/runs/9421031556

{
"message": "Could not delete the workflow run",
"documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/actions/workflow-runs#delete-a-workflow-run",
"status": "403"
}

gh: Could not delete the workflow run (HTTP 403)`

what else i can do?

Thanks in advance
Peter

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