Deploy stuck at "creating containers"
brunojccorrea
HOBBYOP

22 days ago

Hi Railway Support,

My service has been unable to deploy for the past ~24 hours. Every deploy completes the build successfully but gets stuck
indefinitely at the "creating containers" phase.

Service details:

  • Service has a SQLite volume attached

  • Old container continues running fine (service is up)

  • New containers never start

    What I've tried:

  • Multiple redeploys (all stuck at same phase)

  • Removed TELEGRAMBOTTOKEN to rule out bot conflicts

  • Added SQLite busyTimeout(30000) to handle lock contention

  • Checked Railway status page (shows operational)

    Build logs: Build completes successfully in ~3-4 minutes, then hangs at "creating containers" with no deploy logs appearing.

    Theory: Could this be related to SQLite file locking during zero-downtime deployment? Both old and new containers trying to access
    the same volume?

    Project/Service: brunojccorrea/aware-curiosity

    Could you check the internal logs to identify what's blocking container creation?

    Thanks!

21 Replies

brunojccorrea
HOBBYOP

22 days ago

Bump - still stuck after 5+ hours. Service is running but no deploys can complete. Any visibility on this?


atawfique21
HOBBY

22 days ago

Also running into this as well. Sometimes, builds are very quick and then occasionally build hang forever.


virtuous6
HOBBY

22 days ago

Same here


yanayzabary
HOBBY

22 days ago

Same here


y-pakorn
PRO

21 days ago

Same here, normally it would be really quick.


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

21 days ago

Same


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

21 days ago

Bruh railway soo bad like wtf


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

21 days ago

@Brody


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

21 days ago

it has been hours and no response


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

21 days ago

many people getting the same issue


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

21 days ago

1466097753418633500


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

21 days ago

cmon


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

21 days ago

🫠


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

21 days ago

dude like wtf


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

21 days ago

everything running all good


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

21 days ago

no comits or anything


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

21 days ago

im leaving railway


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

21 days ago

bye


passos
MODERATOR

21 days ago

Railway is aware of the issues on logs, and they're working on a fix.

And sorry for the inconvenience, Railway had a surge in users in the past week and they're actively trying to patch any holes that might appear.


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

21 days ago

bruh

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passos
MODERATOR

21 days ago

If you can open a help thread on https://station.railway.com/ with your service URLs (the ones that appear in your browser), it would help us significantly in debugging the issue! They're working on a incident update as we speak.


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