diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/api/stop.php b/Plugin/unraid/api/stop.php
index a9f8f2a..1ce6797 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/api/stop.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/api/stop.php
@@ -55,9 +55,24 @@
 //       the script had already exited and `ps` returned nothing — passed.
 //
 //   A job that is not running is a no-op success.
-//       Both the missing-stat-file and status-not-running paths exit before any signal is
-//       sent, so pressing stop twice cannot kill an unrelated process that has since been
-//       assigned the recorded pid.
+//       Three paths exit before any signal is sent: no stat file, status not 'running', and a
+//       recorded pid with no /proc entry. The third is the one that matters, because the other
+//       two only cover a job that got to write its own ending. run_job.sh updates the stat file
+//       on exit, but SIGKILL, an OOM kill and a power loss all skip that — leaving 'running'
+//       and a pid the kernel is free to hand to something else. Signalling on the strength of
+//       that file alone is signalling a stranger. run.php and status.php already refuse to
+//       believe a 'running' stat without the /proc check; this endpoint is the one that sends
+//       SIGKILL, so it is the last place that should have been taking the file's word for it.
+//
+//       The stale entry is corrected to 'error' on the way out rather than left alone: the job
+//       did not stop, it died, and a status of 'stopped' would claim this endpoint did
+//       something it did not do.
+//
+//       What this does not prove is that a live /proc/<pid> is still *this* job's process —
+//       a pid reissued to something unrelated between the stat write and the click looks
+//       identical. Closing that needs the process start-time out of /proc/<pid>/stat compared
+//       against the recorded start. Not done here, and deliberately: it is real machinery, and
+//       the window it closes is far narrower than the one above.
 //
 //   The pid is only cleared from the stat file if the process is confirmed gone.
 //       D-state processes survive SIGKILL. Clearing the pid there would lose the only handle
@@ -85,6 +100,7 @@
 // RESPONSE
 //   {"ok":true,"killed":true,"locks":["…"],"error":null}
 //   {"ok":true,"msg":"Not running"}
+//   {"ok":true,"msg":"Not running — stale pid cleared"}   stat said running, process was gone
 //   {"ok":false,"killed":false,"locks":[…],
 //    "error":"Process still alive after SIGKILL (D-state) — lock may persist"}
 //   {"ok":false,"error":"Invalid id"|"No stat file — script may not be running"
@@ -123,6 +139,19 @@ if ($pid < 2) {
     exit;
 }
 
+// The stat file says 'running'; the process table is what decides whether that is still true.
+// A job killed hard never got to correct its own file, so 'running' can outlive the process by
+// days and the pid can since have been reissued. Correct the record and stop — nothing here is
+// worth signalling.
+if (!file_exists("/proc/$pid")) {
+    $stat['status'] = 'error';
+    $stat['end']    = $stat['end'] ?? time();
+    unset($stat['pid']);
+    file_put_contents($statFile, json_encode($stat));
+    echo json_encode(['ok' => true, 'msg' => 'Not running — stale pid cleared']);
+    exit;
+}
+
 // Kill the whole process group so the script and all its children die together — but only when
 // the job genuinely owns that group.
 //
diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/event/disks_mounted/array_start_jobs b/Plugin/unraid/event/disks_mounted/array_start_jobs
index cc0976d..34d33b2 100755
--- a/Plugin/unraid/event/disks_mounted/array_start_jobs
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/event/disks_mounted/array_start_jobs
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ foreach (\$s as \$id => \$e) {
         : SCRIPTS_DIR . '/' . \$id;
     if (!file_exists(\$script)) continue;
     \$flags = !empty(\$e['log_enabled']) ? ' --log' : '';
-    exec('nohup bash ' . escapeshellarg(\$runner) . ' ' . escapeshellarg(\$id) . ' ' . escapeshellarg(\$script) . \$flags . ' > /dev/null 2>&1 &');
+    // setsid for the same reason as api/run.php: the job must lead its own process group or
+    // api/stop.php cannot signal the tree, only the parent and its direct children.
+    exec('setsid nohup bash ' . escapeshellarg(\$runner) . ' ' . escapeshellarg(\$id) . ' ' . escapeshellarg(\$script) . \$flags . ' > /dev/null 2>&1 &');
 }
 " 2>/dev/null