Machine not found, unable to start or restart

Hi guys,

I have a project here that seems to have one of the machines in some kind of zombie mode. I am unable to start or delete the machine either. This has been happening for over 24 hours now. I am also not able to deploy anything whether from local or via GitHub Actions. How can I fix this?

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I am also currently having issues getting machines to start. They stop themselves immediately.

For mine, it seems I cant stop or start them because the machine is not found.


Hi… This can happen when the underlying physical host is down or having anisotropic† network problems. (Singapore did have a spate of the latter a while back, if I recall correctly.) Do you see any notifications on your personal status page?

Also, it might help to try fly m destroy --force from the command line. (It’s not clear to me whether that can actually work when the underlying host is unreachable, but it would make sense if the platform as a whole had something that did!)


†By this I just mean that connectivity is fine is some directions but bad in others…

The personal status page has no issues on it

Running the command also doesn’t seem to work as the machine is completely unreachable.

If this is unable to be fixed, perhaps my best bet would be to delete the whole app and make a new one, but not sure if I would run into the same issue with being unable to delete the machine.

People have reported in the forum in the past that deleting the entire app does work in this kind of situation, although obviously that’s rather drastic…

It might be worth waiting a little longer. (Host problems aren’t always noticed immediately.)

Sorry you’ve been having so much trouble with this!

No worries, thanks for your reply! I will probably wait awhile longer before deciding to delete the whole app. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.

My issue resolved itself after waiting 3 days.

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Thats good to hear, mine still seems to be the same. Will give it a few more days before trying to delete the app.

I have a very similar issue.

A machine just doesn’t show up in the dashboard or CLI but a volume is still attached to it (and it’s still reporting trace events to sentry, interestingly).

That looks very similar to the issue I’m facing as well. Thankfully my application is not launched on prod yet so no real worries there. It does raise some serious concerns about the reliability of flyio though.

According the their status page it seems they have just rolled out a major fix so hoping this can be cleaned up soon.

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