Ok so mark this in the news of the bizarre
In trying to figure out what might have changed, in subsequent restarts,
the green balls plugin disappeared. I (re)installed it, restarted Jenkins,
and poof! the problem vanished. I can configure jobs, create news ones
(found that wasn't working either) an
Not sure what happened when, but I'm basically stuck now. I tried looking
through https://issues.jenkins-ci.org but did not see the issue. I was not
able to report it there as I get the "Oops! Due to the spam problem, we
need additional verification for your sign-up request." when trying to sign
up
