3 months ago
Project Details:
- Project ID:
ae3b3975-f870-475b-8b94-70b5c17ac904 - Service: PostgreSQL (Postgres)
- Service ID:
94e38f1b-c417-418d-bce7-18752000baca
Affected Environments:
- Production Environment ID:
c9abb4e1-420c-484c-935b-413fd0ee08c0(CRASHED) - Staging Environment ID:
380668c2-563e-4e17-b3ad-0034e1f6c831(RUNNING)
Problem: The PostgreSQL service in production is crashing due to a volume mount path concatenation bug. Instead of using the correct mount path /var/lib/postgresql/data, the system is concatenating multiple copies of the path on each deployment.
Current Error:
Railway volume not mounted to the correct path,
expected /var/lib/postgresql/data
but got /var/lib/postgresql/data,/var/lib/postgresql/data,/var/lib/postgresql/data,/var/lib/postgresql/data
Volume Details:
- Production Volume:
postgres-volume-638-(ID:8113f0ec-cb1a-4d74-a50c-da161643db81) - Staging Volume:
postgres-volume(working correctly) - Mount Path:
/var/lib/postgresql/data
Troubleshooting Attempted:
- Removed corrupted volume
- Created fresh volume with clean configuration
- Bug persists - path concatenation continues on each deployment
Impact: Production PostgreSQL service cannot start. Staging PostgreSQL works fine with identical configuration.
2 Replies
Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway • 3 months ago
2 months ago
Hey! I took a look at your project and found the issue. Your production Postgres service has 6 separate volumes all mounted at /var/lib/postgresql/data. When the system tries to mount all of them, it concatenates the paths together, which is why you're seeing that error.
Your staging environment only has 1 volume on the Postgres service, which is why it works fine.
To fix this, you'll need to remove the extra volumes from your production Postgres service, keeping only the one that has your data. You can do this from the service settings page under the Volumes section. Once you're down to a single volume, redeploy and it should start up normally.
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 2 months ago
sam-a
Hey! I took a look at your project and found the issue. Your production Postgres service has **6 separate volumes** all mounted at `/var/lib/postgresql/data`. When the system tries to mount all of them, it concatenates the paths together, which is why you're seeing that error. Your staging environment only has 1 volume on the Postgres service, which is why it works fine. To fix this, you'll need to remove the extra volumes from your production Postgres service, keeping only the one that has your data. You can do this from the service settings page under the Volumes section. Once you're down to a single volume, redeploy and it should start up normally.
2 months ago
Thanks i got it going appreciate it!
Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway • 2 months ago
Status changed to Solved sam-a • 2 months ago