Deploy stuck at "creating containers"
brunojccorrea
HOBBYOP

5 months 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 TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN 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!

Solved

23 Replies

brunojccorrea
HOBBYOP

5 months ago

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


atawfique21
HOBBY

5 months ago

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


virtuous6
HOBBY

5 months ago

Same here


yanayzabary
HOBBY

5 months ago

Same here


y-pakorn
PRO

5 months ago

Same here, normally it would be really quick.


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

5 months ago

Same


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

5 months ago

Bruh railway soo bad like wtf


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

5 months ago

@Brody


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

5 months ago

it has been hours and no response


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

5 months ago

many people getting the same issue


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

5 months ago

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shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

5 months ago

cmon


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

5 months ago

🫠


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

5 months ago

dude like wtf


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

5 months ago

everything running all good


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

5 months ago

no comits or anything


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

5 months ago

im leaving railway


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

5 months ago

bye


5 months 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

5 months ago

bruh

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5 months 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.


sujalsinha
HOBBY

3 months ago

I'm facing the same issue, stuck on "Deploy -> Creating containers..." for more than 20 minutes


3 months ago

Please create your own help thread.


Status changed to Solved passos 3 months ago


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