Initialization › Taking a snapshot of the code...
ropel123
HOBBYOP

13 days ago

Hi everyone,
I’m experiencing a persistent issue with one of my services on Railway.

Description of the issue

Every time I deploy, the deployment is stuck at:

Initialization → “Taking a snapshot of the code…”

The build never starts and the service stays in this state forever.

What I observe

  • Build logs remain completely empty:

    “Waiting for build to start…”

  • No clone step, no build step, no container creation.

  • Cancelling and redeploying changes nothing.

  • Disconnecting and reconnecting the GitHub repo does not fix it.

  • Pushing new commits does not trigger an actual build (still stuck).

  • Other projects on my account deploy normally — only this service is “frozen”.

Important context

This issue started right after the Nov 25–26 outage (“Deploys and configuration changes delayed”).
It looks like this service’s deployment pipeline became corrupted during that outage.

Logs

There are effectively no logs to show — the build never begins.
Build Logs panel only displays:

“Waiting for build to start…”

Awaiting User Response

6 Replies

Railway
BOT

13 days ago

Hey there! We've found the following might help you get unblocked faster:

If you find the answer from one of these, please let us know by solving the thread!


ray-chen
EMPLOYEE

12 days ago

Is this still happening for you?


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 12 days ago


ray-chen

Is this still happening for you?

arunvkumar99
HOBBY

10 days ago

I am facing the same issue. The build doesnt start saying queued and waiting for a slot and takes ages to initiate deployment post build saying Publishing image....


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 10 days ago


arunvkumar99

I am facing the same issue. The build doesnt start saying queued and waiting for a slot and takes ages to initiate deployment post build saying Publishing image....

ray-chen
EMPLOYEE

10 days ago

Could you share a link to your deployment please?


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 10 days ago



Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 4 days ago


noahd
EMPLOYEE

3 days ago

Hey Mitch-olson!
Are you able to create your own thread for that? Would love to debug it more there!


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 3 days ago


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