Postgres service crashed after May 19 GCP incident — catatonit pid1 error
ilsu-money
PROOP

24 days ago

Hi Railway team,

My Postgres service has been crashing since the May 19 GCP incident.

Project: divine-adventure

Environment: production

Service: Postgres (cffdfd6f)

Region: US East

Workspace email: hojag57@gmail.com

The service repeatedly fails to start with this error in the logs:

Mounting volume on: /var/lib/containers/railwayapp/bind-mounts/239b23f4-8620-4a3a-830d-12853759570b/vol_sx9gtpkby0syo2pe

ERROR (catatonit:2): failed to exec pid1: No such file or directory

The volume mounts successfully but the container fails to exec pid 1.

Last successful checkpoint was at 2026-05-19 00:16 UTC. The web service

on the same project is Online, but unable to connect because Postgres

is down.

Please help recover the service without data loss. The postgres-volume

appears intact (mount succeeds) — only the container image / entrypoint

seems broken after the GCP→metal migration.

Restart did not resolve it.

Thanks,

Hojag

Solved

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Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 24 days ago


sam-a
EMPLOYEE

24 days ago

Apologies for this canned message but in an effort to help all our customers get back up and running, we are sending this bulk message. As you may know, we had a major interruption to our services yesterday. We've published a post-mortem if you'd like more information on the incident. It describes what happened and what we are doing to prevent it in the future. We are deeply sorry for the impact that it has had on you.

It is taking some time to bring everything back up, but we are working on it as fast as we can. In general, a redeployment should fix most service issues. Due to the volume of customers redeploying right now, builds and deploys may take longer than normal to process.

You can track recovery status here: https://status.railway.com/incident/KVZ1Z8GY

If you are still having other issues that might be related to the incident you can read more here: https://station.railway.com/community/road-to-recovery-post-gcp-outage-builds-d362e48c

Feel free to respond if your question has not been addressed.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 24 days ago


Railway
BOT

17 days ago

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Status changed to Solved Railway 17 days ago


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