Cancel SharePoint 2010 Deployment

Sometimes I get a SharePoint 2010 deployment job stuck deploying. When I attempt to re-deploy I get message indicating that another deployment job cannot be started while one is running. The only way I have found to resolve this is to use stsadm (located in 14\bin folder) to;

   

   a)   List current deployment jobs and their Ids

   

   b)   Cancel a running deployment job by Id

stsadm

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN>stsadm -o enumdeployments C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN>stsadm -o canceldeployment –id <the id to cancel>