NetWAS jobs started using curl remain "queued" indefinitely

[bdessailly]

Following the documentation here, as well as on pages http://giant-api.princeton.edu/static/index.html and https://github.com/FunctionLab/giant-api/wiki/Examples, I've tried submitting a NetWAS job with the API, using:

curl http://giant-api.princeton.edu/netwas/jobs
-F title="NetWAS cURL demo"
-F email=my_email_address
-F gwas_file="@bmi-2012.vegas.txt"
-F tissue="adipose_tissue"
-F p_value=0.01
-F gwas_format="vegas"

The job is then queued, and I get a job id back.

When trying to start the job using:
curl -X POST http://giant-api.princeton.edu/netwas/jobs/${JOB_ID}/start

I get the following message: “{"job.status":"Job status must be 'not_started'. Current job status: queued."}”

The job also remains on status 'queued'.