Deployments stuck in INITIALIZING — "no associated build" (project: telegram down bot, service: teleg-bot)
jambyylf
HOBBYOP

16 days ago

Since ~June 20, every new deployment on service "teleg-bot" (project "telegram down bot",

project id bce1ed89-de9b-4db6-9277-8228249e3819, env: production) gets stuck in INITIALIZING

and never starts. railway logs --build returns "Deployment does not have an associated build"

— a build is never assigned.

Already verified / ruled out:

  • Builder set to DOCKERFILE via railway.json (a Dockerfile build did succeed earlier and pushed an image)
  • Volume /data: READY, not full
  • No zombie/blocking deployments (cleared them)
  • Repo: cleaned 2.1 GB of accidentally-committed files from git history; main is now tiny
  • Billing: account active, Hobby usage-based
  • Usage limits: compute $18/$150, agent $0/$5 — neither reached

The previously-running deployment worked fine; only NEW deployments hang. Tried GitHub

auto-deploy, railway redeploy --from-source, and railway up — all stick at the same point.

Stuck deployment IDs: d59ab815, b28d7019, 6ce3f098.

Please check why new deployments for this service aren't being provisioned a build. Thanks!

Solved

8 Replies

Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 16 days ago


The provisioning issue that left those deployments stuck without a build has cleared. The three that hung are still showing the old initializing state, but every deployment you triggered after that point moved past initializing, got a build assigned, and ran. A fresh redeploy from your latest commit will get a build normally now, so go ahead and trigger one. If a new deployment still does not get past initializing, reply here and we will take another look.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 15 days ago


angelo-railway

The provisioning issue that left those deployments stuck without a build has cleared. The three that hung are still showing the old initializing state, but every deployment you triggered after that point moved past initializing, got a build assigned, and ran. A fresh redeploy from your latest commit will get a build normally now, so go ahead and trigger one. If a new deployment still does not get past initializing, reply here and we will take another look.

jambyylf
HOBBYOP

15 days ago

Thanks Angelo. Unfortunately fresh deploys from the latest commit still get stuck.

Today (June 22) I triggered two new deployments from the latest commit:

  • 86843a3e (via railway redeploy --from-source)
  • b583862b (via a fresh GitHub push)

Both have been sitting in INITIALIZING for several minutes with no build assigned

(railway logs --build -> "Deployment does not have an associated build") — same

symptom as before.

Note: the f4a1761 deployments that did get a build and then failed were an older

commit (before I added railway.json forcing the DOCKERFILE builder), so those

failures were expected. The current latest commit has railway.json -> DOCKERFILE.

Could you take another look at why new deployments for this service still aren't

getting a build assigned? Thanks!


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 15 days ago


Thanks for the new deployment IDs. That confirms the no-associated-build issue did not fully clear for this service.

We now have the current stuck deployments to investigate:

  • 86843a3e from railway redeploy --from-source
  • b583862b from the fresh GitHub push

Since both are still stuck in INITIALIZING without a build assigned, this needs another look at the deployment orchestration for this specific service/source. We will check why those new deployments are not receiving build records and follow up here.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 14 days ago


angelo-railway

Thanks for the new deployment IDs. That confirms the no-associated-build issue did not fully clear for this service. We now have the current stuck deployments to investigate: - `86843a3e` from `railway redeploy --from-source` - `b583862b` from the fresh GitHub push Since both are still stuck in `INITIALIZING` without a build assigned, this needs another look at the deployment orchestration for this specific service/source. We will check why those new deployments are not receiving build records and follow up here.

jambyylf
HOBBYOP

12 days ago

Hi, following up — it's been 2 days and the deployment is still stuck. b583862b

(the fresh GitHub push from the latest commit) has been sitting in INITIALIZING

since June 22 with no build assigned, and 86843a3e was auto-removed. The issue

has not cleared on its own.

This service has now been unable to deploy for ~5 days. Could you share any update

on the deployment-orchestration investigation, or manually re-trigger provisioning

for this service? Happy to provide anything else you need. Thanks!


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 12 days ago


11 days ago

Thanks for staying on this, and sorry it has dragged on. You have ruled out everything on your side correctly, and we can confirm the holdup is not your build config or your repo. New deployments for this service are not being assigned a build, which is on us to clear, not something a further redeploy from your end will fix. We are getting an engineer on the specific service so the stuck deployment gets a build dispatched and starts running. We will follow up here as soon as it moves, and we will not need anything further from you in the meantime.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 11 days ago


axisor
PRO

11 days ago

Same issue here.


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 11 days ago


axisor

Same issue here.

jambyylf
HOBBYOP

8 days ago

It's now been 3 days since you mentioned assigning an engineer, and the deployment

(b583862b) is still stuck in INITIALIZING — this service has been unable to deploy

for a full week. Is there any progress on getting a build dispatched?

If a fix will take longer, would recreating the service from scratch help, or is that

likely to hit the same orchestration issue? I'd rather not lose more time. Thanks.


8 days ago

Can you try cancelling the stuck deploy and doing a new one?


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 8 days ago


Railway
BOT

18 hours ago

This thread has been marked as solved automatically due to a lack of recent activity. Please re-open this thread or create a new one if you require further assistance. Thank you!

Status changed to Solved Railway about 18 hours ago


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