# Zombie app instance running

**URL:** <https://community.fly.io/t/zombie-app-instance-running/7834>\
**Category:** Questions / Help\
**Created:** [October 12, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/zombie-app-instance-running/7834 "2022-10-12T20:21:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mclate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@mclate](https://community.fly.io/u/mclate)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/zombie-app-instance-running/7834/1 "2022-10-12T20:21:08Z")

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Here is the thing: i don’t know how it have happened, but in the logs i see an instance of one of my previous deployments running. I don’t see this deployment or this instance anywhere, but the logs are “current”: app reacts on the changes in the environment (i played with setting up and destroying redis instance it depends on).

I’ve restarted app many times, tried to re-deploy it or scale to 0. I also tried to delete the app and create it once again (under the same name). Nothing helped: zombie instance is still there, reporting in logs.

[Fly.io](http://Fly.io) team, if you are interested: instance id is `a7537e58` running in `fra` region.

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**Author:** ![ignoramous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a9adbd/32.png) [@ignoramous](https://community.fly.io/u/ignoramous)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/zombie-app-instance-running/7834/2 "2022-10-12T20:47:33Z")

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> [@mclate](#):
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> Here is the thing: i don’t know how it have happened, but in the logs i see an instance of one of my previous deployments running.

Curious: Do you happen to also run a [`release_command`](https://community.fly.io/t/post-deployment-command/4632)?

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**Author:** ![mclate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@mclate](https://community.fly.io/u/mclate)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 8:08am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/zombie-app-instance-running/7834/3 "2022-10-13T08:08:21Z")

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Now, thinking about it - i did, and it was the case where docker entrypoint was configured incorrectly, making the main app to run instead of migration.

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**Author:** ![ignoramous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a9adbd/32.png) [@ignoramous](https://community.fly.io/u/ignoramous)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/zombie-app-instance-running/7834/4 "2022-10-13T14:40:29Z")

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_Some_ Zombie VMs are a remnant of some bug with Fly apps using the experimental `release_command`, but one which Fly allegedly has since fixed. You’d have to nerd snipe Fly engs to get the zombie culled: [lingering connections and ghost vms. - #2 by ignoramous](https://community.fly.io/t/lingering-connections-and-ghost-vms/7163/2)

Or, if you’re on [a paid plan](https://community.fly.io/t/announcing-plans-for-email-support-and-compliance-requirements/7537) (ex $29/mo), then you can email support: [I can’t deploy the application!!! - #3 by undefined](https://community.fly.io/t/i-can-t-deploy-the-application/7630/3) (see img).