Deployments hanging at "Creating containers..." after Railway Metal upgrade
manav2modi
HOBBYOP

2 months ago

I'm experiencing an issue where all new deployments hang indefinitely at the "Creating containers..." stage after the Railway Metal upgrade, while an older deployment continues to work.

Working Deployment:

- Commit: "fix analyitcs error" (b0c8cee)

- Status: ACTIVE and running successfully for 2+ hours

- Deployed before the Railway Metal upgrade

Failing Deployments:

- All new deployments after the upgrade hang at "Deploy > Creating containers..." for 9+ minutes

- Build completes successfully (~60-90 seconds)

- Container never starts - hangs indefinitely at container creation

What I've verified:

1. Code is identical to the working deployment (reset backend to exact working commit)

2. Dockerfile is identical to working version

3. Build logs show successful build completion

4. No code changes between working and failing deployments

5. Issue started immediately after Railway Metal upgrade notification

Build logs show:

- Build completes successfully

- All Docker layers cached/created properly

- Prisma client generated successfully

- No build errors

Container logs:

- Container creation starts but never completes

- No error messages visible

- Deployment stuck at "Creating containers..." indefinitely

Environment:

- Region: us-east4-eqdc4a

- Service: agent-phone

- Dockerfile-based deployment

- Python 3.11-slim base image

Question:

Is this a known issue with Railway Metal migration? The old deployment works fine, but new deployments on Metal infrastructure hang. Should I roll back to the old region, or is there a fix in progress?

14 Replies

It should be working now!


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway about 2 months ago


eliasguillermo
PRO

2 months ago

Hey I'm having the same issue with my deploys, stuck for a long time and creating container... and after that it fails!


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway about 2 months ago


yorizel
HOBBY

2 months ago

having the same issue with my deploys


May I get links to the affected services?


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway about 2 months ago


Railway
BOT

2 months ago

Hello!

We're acknowledging your issue and attaching a ticket to this thread.

We don't have an ETA for it, but, our engineering team will take a look and you will be updated as we update the ticket.

Please reply to this thread if you have any questions!


yanayzabary
HOBBY

2 months ago

Just want to jump in and say #MeToo - can't deploy any new updates.


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway about 2 months ago


sarahkb125
EMPLOYEE

2 months ago

Hi there, can you please share links to the hanging deployments?


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway about 2 months ago



Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway about 2 months ago



Railway
BOT

2 months ago

Hello!

We're acknowledging your issue and attaching a ticket to this thread.

We don't have an ETA for it, but, our engineering team will take a look and you will be updated as we update the ticket.

Please reply to this thread if you have any questions!


sarahkb125
EMPLOYEE

2 months ago

Hi there, I've escalated to our engineering team.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway about 2 months ago


Railway
BOT

a month ago

✅ The ticket Deployment delays has been marked as completed.


Railway
BOT

a month ago

✅ The ticket Workload scheduling issue has been marked as completed.



Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway about 1 month ago


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