4 months ago
Hi Railway team,
My deployment suddenly started failing with the following error message:

Failed to resolve version 1 of yarn
This occurred despite no changes being made to my Yarn configuration or lockfiles.
The logs show that the build environment is detecting and attempting to use Yarn 1:
↳ Using yarn1 package manager 
Failed to resolve version 1 of yarn
Railpack version:0.2.3
Region:asia-southeast1
Timestamp:Aug 6, 2025, 17:56 GMT+7
It was deploying fine before, and I didn’t change anything related to yarn, .yarnrc, or the package.json engines field.
Please let me know if there’s a change in the build image or if I should explicitly set something in my project config to resolve this.
Thanks!
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4 months ago
Hey there! We've found the following might help you get unblocked faster:
If you find the answer from one of these, please let us know by solving the thread!
4 months ago
I just try again today but still fail. Anyone get this too?
4 months ago
Could y'all please open an issue on the Railpack GitHub repo? We've got someone who can look at this this week
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4 months ago
I've created new issue on Railpack but do you have any idea to hot fix it or work around for now? Because i really need to deploy. Thanks.
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4 months ago
You can try setting the properties to manually define your yarn version
see the railpack docs at https://railpack.com/
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 4 months ago
4 months ago
I'm also currently experiencing the same issue.
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4 months ago
I just resolved it just by change to using pnpm. Waiting support is hopeless.
4 months ago
I have the same error, please look into it when possible.
Thanks!
hainguyentien
I just resolved it just by change to using pnpm. Waiting support is hopeless.
4 months ago
Hey, I am sure they will resolve it to the earliest. Whenever I had technical issues in the past, Railway's support team has been very helpful. Let's be patient and give them some time to inspect the issue 
4 months ago
A reproducible environment (aka opensource GitHub repo) would be super helpful. We've got someone looking into some Railpack issues this week and can defs have a look at this!
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4 months ago
As mentioned we'll have someone look at this this week. Looks like an upstream issue (Railpack depends on Mise)
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michaelotis
Using Corepack and using Yarn 4 fixed it for me
4 months ago
Thanks this Worked for me as well.
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4 months ago
Hey! I ran into this exact issue and solved it by switching to a Dockerfile approach.
The issue is that Railpack's Corepack is failing to resolve Yarn 1.22.22. While the exact cause it isn't clear, it appears to be related to how Corepack resolves specific Yarn versions -
possibly a compatibility issue or a registry problem.
The Dockerfile solution works because it bypasses Corepack entirely and installs Yarn directly from npm:
# Instead of using Corepack, install Yarn directly via npm
RUN rm -f .yarnrc \
&& rm -f .yarn/releases/yarn-1.22.22.cjs \
&& npm i -g yarn@1.22.22 --force \
&& yarn --version --no-default-rc
Key differences:
1. Direct npm installation: Uses npm i -g yarn@1.22.22, which pulls from the npm registry (where all Yarn versions are available.
2. Removes Yarn config conflicts: Cleans up .yarnrc and any local Yarn releases that might interfere.
3. Uses --no-default-rc: Ensures Yarn ignores any repository-specific configurations that might cause issues
This approach gives you full control over the Yarn installation process and avoids the Corepack version resolution issue entirely. Plus, you get the added benefits of Docker caching and more
predictable builds.
Hope this helps others facing the same issue!
jake
As mentioned we'll have someone look at this this week. Looks like an upstream issue (Railpack depends on Mise)
4 months ago
Indeed Dockerfile as mentioned above will work. But we will also be having a look at this looks like today, tomorrow, or latest early next week
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4 months ago
Any date for fixing this problem? I can't switch to Nixpacks, I'm having problems with Biome. Last week I was able to deploy without any problems with Railpack.
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4 months ago
We have someone staffed on this issue as we speak, no date, but actively being resolved.
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4 months ago
I'm helping out on this issue! I believe we've fixed it: could you retry any builds and let me know if you are still running into issues?
For those who are interested: it looks like what happened here is the mise yarn backend (asdf, for the current mise version used by railpack) was broken/corrupted for some amount of time. The latest version of mise (which we are updating) uses a different backend to avoid this issue, but the current asdf backend looks to be fixed, so builds that were failing should now work.
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mikebianco
I'm helping out on this issue! I believe we've fixed it: could you retry any builds and let me know if you are still running into issues?For those who are interested: it looks like what happened here is the mise yarn backend (asdf, for the current mise version used by railpack) was broken/corrupted for some amount of time. The latest version of mise (which we are updating) uses a different backend to avoid this issue, but the current asdf backend looks to be fixed, so builds that were failing should now work.
4 months ago
Hey Mike, thanks for sorting it out, I just did a build and it's working.
4 months ago
Sweet! Awaiting others to chime in to report a successful fix before we close this out.
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3 months ago
This thread has been marked as solved automatically due to a lack of recent activity. Please re-open this thread or create a new one if you require further assistance. Thank you!
Status changed to Solved Railway • 3 months ago




