Postgres service has been crash-looping for 3 days with catatonit
rakeshsivan
HOBBYOP

3 hours ago

My managed Postgres service has been crash-looping for 3 days with catatonit: failed to exec pid1: No such file or directory. Volume: vol_ti87dkxzgoysf8wo. The postgres-volume is mounted but the container fails to start. I need help restoring the service without data loss.

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Railway
BOT

3 hours ago

This error is caused by a stale container image, and your volume data is intact. To fix it, open your Postgres service, press Cmd+K (or Ctrl+K) to open the command palette, and select "Redeploy source image" to pull a fresh image. A normal redeploy from the three-dot menu won't work here since it reuses the cached image.


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Railway

This error is caused by a stale container image, and your volume data is intact. To fix it, open your Postgres service, press Cmd+K (or Ctrl+K) to open the command palette, and select "Redeploy source image" to pull a fresh image. A normal redeploy from the three-dot menu won't work here since it reuses the cached image.

rakeshsivan
HOBBYOP

2 hours ago

Got the below error in logs.

May 24, 2026, 10:10 AM

Mounting volume on: /var/lib/containers/railwayapp/bind-mounts/5ec16c32-b862-41f7-94e7-65de5fb41855/vol_ti87dkxzgoysf8wo

Starting Container

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

Mounting volume on: /var/lib/containers/railwayapp/bind-mounts/5ec16c32-b862-41f7-94e7-65de5fb41855/vol_ti87dkxzgoysf8wo

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

Mounting volume on: /var/lib/containers/railwayapp/bind-mounts/5ec16c32-b862-41f7-94e7-65de5fb41855/vol_ti87dkxzgoysf8wo

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

Mounting volume on: /var/lib/containers/railwayapp/bind-mounts/5ec16c32-b862-41f7-94e7-65de5fb41855/vol_ti87dkxzgoysf8wo

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

Mounting volume on: /var/lib/containers/railwayapp/bind-mounts/5ec16c32-b862-41f7-94e7-65de5fb41855/vol_ti87dkxzgoysf8wo

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

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

Mounting volume on: /var/lib/containers/railwayapp/bind-mounts/5ec16c32-b862-41f7-94e7-65de5fb41855/vol_ti87dkxzgoysf8wo

Mounting volume on: /var/lib/containers/railwayapp/bind-mounts/5ec16c32-b862-41f7-94e7-65de5fb41855/vol_ti87dkxzgoysf8wo

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

Mounting volume on: /var/lib/containers/railwayapp/bind-mounts/5ec16c32-b862-41f7-94e7-65de5fb41855/vol_ti87dkxzgoysf8wo

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

Mounting volume on: /var/lib/containers/railwayapp/bind-mounts/5ec16c32-b862-41f7-94e7-65de5fb41855/vol_ti87dkxzgoysf8wo

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

Mounting volume on: /var/lib/containers/railwayapp/bind-mounts/5ec16c32-b862-41f7-94e7-65de5fb41855/vol_ti87dkxzgoysf8wo

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

Mounting volume on: /var/lib/containers/railwayapp/bind-mounts/5ec16c32-b862-41f7-94e7-65de5fb41855/vol_ti87dkxzgoysf8wo

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


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