application fail to respond
brianbarlow98
FREEOP

a month ago

My app (school-mgmt, project "disciplined-achievement") is failing to

start with "Application failed to respond" — has been down for over an

hour.

Deploy logs show only two lines and nothing further, even on completely

fresh containers (confirmed via different bind-mount volume IDs across

two separate attempts):

Mounting volume on: [path]

Starting Container

No further output appears — not even the app's own startup script

banner. This happens after both a plain restart and a full fresh

redeploy.

Already ruled out on my end:

  • No active platform-wide incident on status.railway.com

  • CPU and memory show no spike/usage at all during the stuck period (not

    an OOM kill)

  • The attached volume shows healthy, stable usage (~33MB, flatlined, not

    full or growing)

  • Only one deployment shows as Active — no stale/duplicate deployment

    conflict

  • The Postgres database in the same project did restart once earlier

    (~08:37 UTC) after I toggled its Public Networking setting, but it

    recovered cleanly within milliseconds and has been stable and healthy

    ever since — doesn't appear related to the app's current outage

Two failed request IDs from the platform's own error page, if useful for

looking up server-side logs:

Sg740-UKRoq-1uKUN8N_Fg

h6qDeWTUTGGmcDJX5nX1uw

Nothing about my app's code changed between its last successful run this

morning and now — only database content was modified (via scripts run

against the database directly), no deployments happened in between until

I started troubleshooting this issue.

Solved

1 Replies

Railway
BOT

a month ago

Your service's start command is set to sleep 3600, which just sleeps for an hour and never launches the application. That is why the container starts but produces no output and cannot respond to requests. Remove or correct the start command in the service's Settings so your actual application process runs on startup.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 27 days ago


Status changed to Solved brianbarlow98 • 27 days ago


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