Deploy stuck at "creating containers"
brunojccorrea
HOBBYOP

a month 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

a month ago

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


atawfique21
HOBBY

a month ago

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


virtuous6
HOBBY

a month ago

Same here


yanayzabary
HOBBY

a month ago

Same here


y-pakorn
PRO

a month ago

Same here, normally it would be really quick.


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

a month ago

Same


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

a month ago

Bruh railway soo bad like wtf


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

a month ago

@Brody


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

a month ago

it has been hours and no response


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

a month ago

many people getting the same issue


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

a month ago

1466097753418633500


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

a month ago

cmon


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

a month ago

🫠


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

a month ago

dude like wtf


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

a month ago

everything running all good


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

a month ago

no comits or anything


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

a month ago

im leaving railway


shubhankartrivedi
HOBBY

a month ago

bye


a month 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

a month ago

bruh

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a month 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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