Builds stuck on Initialization? Rough week for Railway
steelzeh
PROOP

2 months ago

Hey Railway team,

We’re running into a pretty serious issue right now where deployments are getting stuck on “Initialization” and never progress.

Imagine if this is happening at the worst possible time, if we had a critical hotfix that needs to go out, and we’re basically blocked from shipping.

What’s happening

  • Builds/deployments get stuck on Initialization

  • No clear error output

  • Retrying doesn’t reliably help

  • This is effectively a full deployment outage on our side

This week has already been rough from our end because we’ve also been seeing weird routing behavior when using Cloudflare.

When Cloudflare proxy is enabled, Railway consistently reports traffic entering through:

x-railway-edge: railway/asia-southeast1-eqsg3a

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Railway is great when it works, but issues like this are brutal in production. When deployments stall with no actionable feedback, it’s not just “a minor inconvenience”, it’s downtime risk.

If anyone else is seeing builds stuck on Initialization right now, please comment. Would be good to know whether this is isolated or widespread.

Thanks.

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8 Replies

2 months ago

Hey, Railway is currently suffering from an incident on build times
https://status.railway.com/cmkhgk0vh040fth2frxk93tvp

The team is already aware and working on a fix! Sorry for any inconvenience

For future reference, the Railway team is actively working on solving issues related to builds and even released their new build system named "Metal Builds", they're really working hard on closing all the gaps


will1980j
PRO

2 months ago

Invalid prisma.user.findUnique() invocation: Timed out fetching a new connection from the connection pool. More info: http://pris.ly/d/connection-pool (Current connection pool timeout: 30, connection limit: 100)


will1980j

Invalid prisma.user.findUnique() invocation: Timed out fetching a new connection from the connection pool. More info: http://pris.ly/d/connection-pool (Current connection pool timeout: 30, connection limit: 100)

2 months ago

Hey, that does not look like to be an issue related to the current incident, can you please open your own help thread?


sam-a
EMPLOYEE

2 months ago

Confirming passos that we are working on this to resolve as quickly as possible.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway about 2 months ago


passos

Hey, Railway is currently suffering from an incident on build timeshttps://status.railway.com/cmkhgk0vh040fth2frxk93tvpThe team is already aware and working on a fix! Sorry for any inconvenienceFor future reference, the Railway team is actively working on solving issues related to builds and even released their new build system named "Metal Builds", they're really working hard on closing all the gaps

steelzeh
PROOP

2 months ago

Thanks for the quick response, I appreciate that!

Would you guys recommend getting off of Metal if it's not yet production ready yet, with these gaps that need closing?


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway about 2 months ago


projevo
PRO

2 months ago

Seems to be many things at once stuck re-deploying and git auth is broken too


steelzeh

Thanks for the quick response, I appreciate that!Would you guys recommend getting off of Metal if it's not yet production ready yet, with these gaps that need closing?

2 months ago

I would not recommend as Metal Builds is becoming the de-facto standard for builds and it is production ready, also the current incident also affects non-metal builds. From my own comms with the team, they're actively taking this as top priority and asking us, community members, to bring to their attention any issue related to Metal Builds.


projevo
PRO

2 months ago

Yeah GIT oAuth is broken, guessing that's why the builds are stuck and not working


Status changed to Solved sam-a about 2 months ago


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