10 months ago
i already reported this one before in https://station.railway.com/questions/sudden-build-failed-errors-cc4be8e5 and https://discord.com/channels/713503345364697088/1373284678173462689
and i thought i fixed it at first (by changing from nixpacks to railpacks) but it happened again, for a bit more context my project is a python file that uses railway's cronjob system to run the code every 15 minutes, suddenly at random time without any involvement from me, i get spammed with build failed errors (i got around 40 emails saying build failed while i was asleep), i realized that redeploying the original deployment only fixes it temporarily, so i want to know what causes this issue?
name: brave-embarce
id: 6bf56526-ebe4-41fa-ac7f-573821bcbf55
39 Replies
10 months ago
Hi! Do you have a main.py file or a requirements.txt file on the root path?
https://railpack.com/languages/python/#detection
10 months ago
What does your file structure looks like? I’ll see if I can reproduce this
│ checker.py
│ content_title.py
│ main.py
│ README.md
│ requirements.txt
│ subs.py
│ sub_list.txt
│
├───data
│ CS.json
│ CT.json
│ DS.json
│ EN.json
│ EN2.json
│ ETH.json
│ IS.json
│ LD.json
│ Math.json
│ PHY.json
│ PL.json
│ SC.json
│ Static.json
│
├───images
│ logo.png
│ screenshot.png
│
├───prev-data
│ CS.json
│ CT.json
│ DS.json
│ EN.json
│ EN2.json
│ ETH.json
│ IS.json
│ LD.json
│ Math.json
│ PHY.json
│ PL.json
│ SC.json
│ Static.json
│
└───__pycache__
checker.cpython-313.pyc
content_title.cpython-313.pyc10 months ago
I didn't try it yet! Will do later this day
10 months ago
Could u try with a Dockerfile?
its working now but it might be only temporary, i will wait atleast 4 hours to see if it will crash again or not
10 months ago
It is using railpack, not a Dockerfile as stated there
10 months ago
and I wonder why it is showing ./ as your app content
10 months ago
did u set any root path related env var or do you have your files in a subdir?
No I didn't set any path related var, and I have my files in root in my github repository
10 months ago
finishing some things, will try to reproduce this
I don't if that's normal or not but whenever that issue happens it for some reason makes the orignal deployment sleeping and then makes another deployment that always makes build failed errors
10 months ago
Could not reproduce this in any way and this randomness of runs that deploy successfully and others that just fail on build tell me it's something else
10 months ago
if you could remove every deploy and disable serverless
i think i have found the issue and it looks like a bug in railway's side?
apparently i shouldn't be able to make cronjobs in the first place because my project is forced to be serverless but somehow my project still have it, so it tries to run a cronjob when the deployment is sleeping which causes all that build errors?
10 months ago
Yep, that's it
10 months ago
I forgot that serverless can't run cron jobs, my bad this conversation would've been shorter lol.
10 months ago
Just some extra info before I raise this to the team, you created the project while u were at trial?
10 months ago
And now ur in the free plan
10 months ago
Ok, thanks
10 months ago
!t
10 months ago
@YTangeldog2145 - how did you set a cron schedule?
10 months ago
This thread has been escalated to the Railway team.
Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response medim • 10 months ago
10 months ago
ah i see
10 months ago
so you will need to be on a paid plan to do any kind of CRON going forward, CRONs of any kind be that native platform CRONs or in-code CRONs or jobs are not going to work with serverless.
i see, well what if i made a fastapi project that waits for requests to run the code (serverless projects can wake up when recieving requests right?) from an external website called https://cron-job.org/en/, will that be ok?
10 months ago
yes, but at that point just get hobby 😆
well 5 dollars in my country is alot and its hard to pay that per month(also feels like a waste to pay that when my project only takes less than a dollar per month), and even if i can there is also the issue with getting a payment method that works internationally as its harder to get those
and i am only an unemployed student after all ¯_(ツ)_/¯
10 months ago
fair enough