4 months ago
Hello Railway Support Team,
I'm experiencing an issue where our PDF generation feature works perfectly on our production environment but consistently fails on staging environment, despite both having identical code and configuration.
Environment Details:
Service: Next.js (same service, different environments)
Production: Working
Staging: Failing
Configuration (Identical on Both):
railway.toml:
[build]
builder = "nixpacks"
[deploy]
healthcheckPath = "/healthz"
healthcheckTimeout = 30
restartPolicyType = "always"
[env]
PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD = "true"
PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH = "/usr/bin/chromium"
nixpacks.toml:
[phases.setup]
aptPkgs = [
"chromium",
"chromium-browser",
"fonts-ipafont-gothic",
"fonts-wqy-zenhei",
"fonts-thai-tlwg",
"fonts-kacst",
"fonts-freefont-ttf",
"libxss1",
"libxtst6",
"libnss3",
"libnspr4",
"libasound2t64",
"libatk-bridge2.0-0",
"libatk1.0-0",
"libcups2",
"libdbus-1-3",
"libdrm2",
"libgbm1",
"libgtk-3-0",
"libxcomposite1",
"libxdamage1",
"libxfixes3",
"libxrandr2",
"libpango-1.0-0",
"libcairo2",
"ca-certificates",
]
The Issue:
Production (Working):
Puppeteer launches successfully
PDF generation works perfectly
Using /usr/bin/chromium as configured
Staging (Failing):
API returns 500 error
Error: "Failed to generate PDF"
Deploy logs show: "An error occurred" (generic error)
What We've Verified:
Code is identical between environments (checked via GitHub)- railway.toml is identical (confirmed in Railway Settings)
- Environment variables match in Railway dashboard
- Both deployments show "Deployment successful"
- Both use the same Next.js service
- nixpacks configuration is identical
2 Replies
4 months ago
Hey there! We've found the following might help you get unblocked faster:
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4 months ago
Grabbed these build and deploy logs from railway
Region: us-east4]
==============
Using Nixpacks
==============
context: npvz-H71J
╔══════════════════════════════ Nixpacks v1.38.0 ══════════════════════════════╗
║ setup │ nodejs_18, pnpm-9_x, libnss3, libatk1.0-0, libatk-bridge2.0-0, ║
║ │ libcups2, libgbm1, libasound2t64, libpangocairo-1.0-0, libxss1, ║
║ │ libgtk-3-0, libxshmfence1, libglu1, chromium ║
║──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
║ install │ npm install -g corepack@0.24.1 && corepack enable ║
║ │ pnpm i --frozen-lockfile ║
║──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
║ build │ pnpm run build ║
║──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
║ start │ pnpm run start ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
internal
load build definition from Dockerfile
0ms
internal
load metadata for ghcr.io/railwayapp/nixpacks:ubuntu-1745885067
115ms
internal
load .dockerignore
0ms
internal
load build context
0ms
stage-0
21ms
stage-0
RUN nix-env -if .nixpacks/nixpkgs-ffeebf0acf3ae8b29f8c7049cd911b9636efd7e7.nix && nix-collect-garbage -d cached
0ms
stage-0
COPY .nixpacks/nixpkgs-ffeebf0acf3ae8b29f8c7049cd911b9636efd7e7.nix .nixpacks/nixpkgs-ffeebf0acf3ae8b29f8c7049cd911b9636efd7e7.nix cached
0ms
stage-0
WORKDIR /app/ cached
0ms
stage-0
RUN sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libnss3 libatk1.0-0 libatk-bridge2.0-0 libcups2 libgbm1 libasound2t64 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libxss1 libgtk-3-0 libxshmfence1 libglu1 chromium
56s
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.39-0ubuntu8.4) ...
stage-0
COPY . /app/.
162ms
stage-0
RUN npm install -g corepack@0.24.1 && corepack enable
1s
changed 1 package in 1s
stage-0
RUN pnpm i --frozen-lockfile
16s
Done in 14s using pnpm v10.20.0
stage-0
COPY . /app/.
1s
stage-0
RUN pnpm run build
1m 15s
ƒ (Dynamic) server-rendered on demand
stage-0
RUN printf '\nPATH=/app/node_modules/.bin:$PATH' >> /root/.profile
142ms
stage-0
COPY . /app
77ms
auth
sharing credentials for production-us-east4-eqdc4a.railway-registry.com
0ms
=== Successfully Built! ===
Run:
docker run -it production-us-east4-eqdc4a.railway-registry.com/58e8d46f-26ed-4433-8004-7b73f6d670ea:99132b6c-67e7-485a-9712-1ab235037a8a
Build time: 212.12 seconds
==================== Starting Healthcheck ====================
Path: /healthz
Retry window: 30s
[1/1] Healthcheck succeeded!