3 months ago
I have a NestJS server running in a node-22:alpine container. Everything was working fine before, but suddenly my NestJS server started crashing with the error:ELIFECYCLE Command failed
The app restarts automatically, but it keeps crashing again after around 10 retries.
I tested the same container locally and connected to PostgreSQL on Railway without changing anything — it works fine locally. But when running on Railway, the app does not start unless I set sslmode=disable in the connection string.
Here are the PostgreSQL logs I see on Railway:2025-09-01 19:46:16.594 UTC [509] LOG: could not receive data from client: Connection reset by peer
2025-09-01 19:46:16.594 UTC [508] LOG: could not receive data from client: Connection reset by peer
2025-09-01 19:46:16.594 UTC [510] LOG: could not receive data from client: Connection reset by peer
2025-09-01 19:46:16.594 UTC [505] LOG: could not receive data from client: Connection reset by peer
2025-09-01 19:46:54.701 UTC [539] LOG: could not accept SSL connection: EOF detected
2025-09-01 19:46:54.701 UTC [542] LOG: could not accept SSL connection: EOF detected
2025-09-01 19:46:54.701 UTC [541] LOG: could not accept SSL connection: EOF detected
2025-09-01 19:46:54.701 UTC [540] LOG: could not accept SSL connection: EOF detected
2025-09-01 19:46:54.701 UTC [543] LOG: could not accept SSL connection: EOF detected
2025-09-01 19:46:54.701 UTC [536] LOG: could not receive data from client: Connection reset by peer
2025-09-01 19:46:54.701 UTC [537] LOG: could not receive data from client: Connection reset by peer
2025-09-01 19:46:54.701 UTC [538] LOG: could not receive data from client: Connection reset by peer
2025-09-01 19:46:54.701 UTC [532] LOG: could not receive data from client: Connection reset by peer
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
Hey! Can you try switching to slim from alpine i have a theory that there might be something missing from alpine. Slim is still small but has a few extra things.
3 months ago
mmm I wonder if it is because is a self signed, I've tried to connect via ssl in my app and I get:Error: self-signed certificate in certificate chain
yet give in theory you would connect to the db using the internal network maybe the ssl is not really needed?
edit: using something like:
ssl: { rejectUnauthorized: false },works, so I suppose the reason is because there is not a ca certificate but only a self signed one
noahd
Hey! Can you try switching to slim from alpine i have a theory that there might be something missing from alpine. Slim is still small but has a few extra things.
3 months ago
It is working now. Thank you
Status changed to Solved noahd • 3 months ago