Strange bug: Could not find root directory /frontend

Question

Experiencing stange deployment behaviour, we trigger the deployment on service using github actions. it's monorepo, and the root directory is set to be `/frontend`  
  
but everytime it's failing on first try.  
  
to resolve this i first change this to another value, and back again `/frontend`  
  
same is happening with other services too.  
  
here's my github action:

```yaml
name: Deploy Production - Frontend

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  deploy:
    name: Deploy to Railway
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

- name: Install Railway CLI
        run: npm i -g @railway/cli

- name: Deploy to Railway Production
        env:
          RAILWAY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RAILWAY_PROJECT_TOKEN }}
        working-directory: frontend
        run: |
          railway up --environment production --service client-app --detach
          railway up --environment production --service admin-ui --detach

```

dharmateja · Accepted Answer

This is working-directory vs --service conflict . You're cd-ing into frontend/ AND Railway has root directory set to /frontend. So Railway might be looking for **/frontend/frontend/** on first run. When you toggle the root dir setting, it forces a config refresh that fixes it.Also both railway up commands run from frontend/ with --detach, so when they fire nearly at the same time. The second deploy can interfere with the first.  
FIX:

Try updating GitHub Action  
Split into separate steps so they don't race each other  
If you need I can also add new github action !!