"There was an error deploying from source" - instant failure, no build logs, all builders tried
pizichina
HOBBYOP

a month ago

Hi Railway team,

I'm experiencing a persistent deployment failure and need help investigating the root cause.

Account: pizichina (Hobby Plan)

Project: outstanding-tranquility

Service: eivf-platform-template

GitHub Repo: pizichina/eivf-platform-template (private)

Branch: master

Issue:

Every deployment attempt fails instantly with "There was an error deploying from source." There are zero build logs generated — the failure happens before any build step runs.

What I've tried:

- Railpack builder → same error

- Nixpacks builder → same error

- Dockerfile builder → same error

- Set custom build command manually in UI → same error

- Disconnected and reconnected GitHub integration → same error

- Deleted the service and created a brand new one → same error

- Verified Railway App has correct GitHub permissions (read/write on the repo)

- Verified billing is fine ($5.00 credits available, current usage $0.00)

- Railway status page shows Fully Operational

Since the failure is instant with no logs across all builder types, even after recreating the service, I suspect there may be something on the backend (account, repo, or service level) that is blocking the deployment from starting. Could you please check the server-side logs for this service?

Thank you.

Solved

1 Replies

Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway about 1 month ago


sam-a
EMPLOYEE

a month ago

Hi there,

I investigated the backend logs and found the root cause. When you attempted to deploy on April 10th, the error was:

Free plan resource provision limit exceeded. Please upgrade to provision more resources!

This explains the instant failure with no build logs - the deploy was blocked before any build could start because of Free plan resource limits. Unfortunately, the frontend displayed a generic "error deploying from source" message instead of surfacing this specific error, which made it confusing to diagnose.

I can see you've since upgraded to Hobby and have been successfully deploying to your "Jacobae" project. So it looks like you're all set now.

Apologies for the confusing error message - I'll flag this internally as a UX issue since the actual error should have been shown to you directly.

Let me know if you have any other questions!


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway about 1 month ago


Railway
BOT

a month ago

This thread has been marked as solved automatically due to a lack of recent activity. Please re-open this thread or create a new one if you require further assistance. Thank you!

Status changed to Solved Railway about 1 month ago


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