7 months ago
Yesterday, I triggered the re-deployment of a previously error-free Railway service with a simple code change in the linked GitHub repository. Then, the deployment for this service was stuck more than 7 hours in the "Deploy" stage (without any log output), so I ended up aborting the stuck deployment process.
Now, I reverted the code changes in a separate commit, pushed this to GitHub and thereby triggered another deployment of the service. This deployment (and all subsequent trials) are now stuck apparently indefinitely in the "Queued" state with the info "Waiting for volume migration."
The Railway service does have a volume attached. Also, I've run into similar problems before (around 1 month ago, I was also indefinitely stuck in the "Waiting for volume migration" step) and ended up completely duplicating the service – which worked at the time, because the service did not contain any production data in its volume, but which would not be applicable for me in the future when the Railway service's attached volume does actually contain production data (because duplicating the service incl. its volume config does not duplicate the volume data).
Can you please check why the deployment of the service is stuck in the "Queued" state with the info "Waiting for volume migration"? Also: Is there anything I can do in the future to avoid running into these problems again? I fear that when I store production data on the service volume, I might run into the situation that I cannot push any new code changes and am stuck with the old service's deployment if I want to keep the existing data without migrating to a completely new Railway service instance just to get around the "Waiting for volume migration" problem.
Thanks in advance for helping out!
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7 months ago
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7 months ago
Same here. I even wiped the volume (not in production yet) and redeployed, and now I'm stuck in "Deploy › Creating containers..." in a service that worked perfectly until yesterday. I could delete and recreate the service, but that wouldn't fly in production. Any guidance on how to solve it and avoid this in the future would be appreciated!
7 months ago
Hello!
We're acknowledging your issue and attaching a ticket to this thread.
We don't have an ETA for it, but, our engineering team will take a look and you will be updated as we update the ticket.
Please reply to this thread if you have any questions!
7 months ago
For both of you, and publicly.
We traced it down to a overly protective workflow that we put into place to protect data integrity of volumes. We have since fixed this, but we're going through and unblocking the handful or so deployments that got caught.
I acknowledge Rober's concern, seeing stuff like this from the build and deploy company doesn't inspire confidence if the build and deploy company doesn't build and deploy. So the team is hardening this flow as much as possible.
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 7 months ago
rober-m
Same here. I even wiped the volume (not in production yet) and redeployed, and now I'm stuck in "Deploy › Creating containers..." in a service that worked perfectly until yesterday. I could delete and recreate the service, but that wouldn't fly in production. Any guidance on how to solve it and avoid this in the future would be appreciated!
7 months ago
Can you provide me a link to the service? Randoms can't see your service, but I would be able to.
angelo-railway
Can you provide me a link to the service? Randoms can't see your service, but I would be able to.
7 months ago
Hi, I'm facing a similar problem:
My Web service was initially stuck on Queued: waiting for volume migration, and after I redeployed now it is stuck on Queued: Waiting for deployment slot. I'm on the hobby plan
Here's the project ID: 395b5adb-d841-4065-87f1-86d428a36165
Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway • 7 months ago
pendatabase
Hi, I'm facing a similar problem:My Web service was initially stuck on Queued: waiting for volume migration, and after I redeployed now it is stuck on Queued: Waiting for deployment slot. I'm on the hobby planHere's the project ID: 395b5adb-d841-4065-87f1-86d428a36165
7 months ago
Fixed!
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 7 months ago
Status changed to Solved angelo-railway • 7 months ago
7 months ago
✅ The ticket "Deployment Delay" has been marked as completed.

