Error: You ran into an error connecting to the Fly API

Questions / Help
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Hi, I’ve been trying to get to a point where I can connect to my app (which is a different problem), and I’ve deployed successfully up through v5 - however after that suddenly deploys started failing with the following error during the “Creating release” step:

Error You ran into an error connecting to the Fly API. If the error persists, keep this request ID to help Fly Support track it down: 01G7FHVVYQ5HN6BEW94XJ1ZEWA-sjc

I thought it might be a transient error, but I’m still seeing it 12 hours later. I’m able to flyctl ssh console to the container, but flyctl deploy keeps failing with that error. Is there a way to diagnose this further?

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This only happens on flyctl deploy? Or is it happening on other commands too?

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Oh wait, found something. Can you share the CMD line from your Dockerfile? And the release_command in the fly.toml? Or the [processes] block?

The error that came up looks like an issue parsing one of the commands it’s trying to run. Those are the places that I can think of where a command might be defined.

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Yep, only on flyctl deploy.

I had added the name of my binary to processes line (processes = ["empd"]) in fly.toml, while trying to diagnose the other issue. (Something appeared to be killing the container, so I had assumed it might be looking for processes in the list as part of the monitoring.) Going back to the default processes = [] line fixed it.