Railway•15mo ago

Django app deployment crashes due to cffi and libffi

Trying to deploy a Django app to Railway. After it builds successfully the deployment crashes with this error:

#10 378.9         Running setup.py install for cffi: started
#10 378.9         Running setup.py install for cffi: finished with status 'error'
#10 378.9         error: subprocess-exited-with-error
#10 378.9
#10 378.9         × Running setup.py install for cffi did not run successfully.
#10 378.9         │ exit code: 1
#10 378.9         ╰─> [60 lines of output]
#10 378.9             Package libffi was not found in the pkg-config search path.
#10 378.9             Perhaps you should add the directory containing

libffi.pc' #10 378.9 to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable #10 378.9 No package 'libffi' found`

69 Replies

Percy•15mo ago

Project ID: 4ad98339-d4b3-47d9-973d-7162b5b5fd9f

lionel•15mo ago

4ad98339-d4b3-47d9-973d-7162b5b5fd9f

Brody•15mo ago

please provide full build logs https://bookmarklets.up.railway.app/log-downloader/

ThallesComH•15mo ago

cool tool brody

Brody•15mo ago

thamks

lionel•14mo ago

build_logs_web_16941...

lionel•14mo ago

there was attempt as well.

lionel•14mo ago

build_logs_web_16941...

deployment_logs_web_...

lionel•14mo ago

mysqlclient is in the requirements.txt

Brody•14mo ago

it wants MySQLdb though

lionel•14mo ago

thanks that fixed that one what about the cffi error in this log?

lionel•14mo ago

build_logs_web_16943...

Brody•14mo ago

send your railway.json please

lionel•14mo ago

railway.json

Brody•14mo ago

give this a try

{
  "$schema": "https://schema.up.railway.app/railway.schema.json",
  "build": {
    "builder": "NIXPACKS",
    "nixpacksPlan": {
      "providers": ["python"],
      "phases": {
        "setup": {
          "nixPkgs": ["...", "nodejs", "libffi"]
        },
        "ci": {
          "dependsOn": ["setup"],
          "cmds": ["npm ci"]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "deploy": {
    "numReplicas": 1,
    "startCommand": "python3 manage.py migrate && python3 manage.py collectstatic --no-input && gunicorn readinghood.wsgi",
    "restartPolicyType": "ON_FAILURE",
    "restartPolicyMaxRetries": 10
  }
}

{
  "$schema": "https://schema.up.railway.app/railway.schema.json",
  "build": {
    "builder": "NIXPACKS",
    "nixpacksPlan": {
      "providers": ["python"],
      "phases": {
        "setup": {
          "nixPkgs": ["...", "nodejs", "libffi"]
        },
        "ci": {
          "dependsOn": ["setup"],
          "cmds": ["npm ci"]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "deploy": {
    "numReplicas": 1,
    "startCommand": "python3 manage.py migrate && python3 manage.py collectstatic --no-input && gunicorn readinghood.wsgi",
    "restartPolicyType": "ON_FAILURE",
    "restartPolicyMaxRetries": 10
  }
}

lionel•14mo ago

build_logs_web_16944...

lionel•14mo ago

still not working

Brody•14mo ago

send your requirements.txt please

lionel•14mo ago

requirements.txt

Brody•14mo ago

does your project use every one of those modules?

lionel•14mo ago

probably not

Brody•14mo ago

please remove everything you are not using, let me know when thats done

lionel•14mo ago

kk one second sorry I have a question actually. Why is it still installing packages on an old version of requirements? I have changed the requirements.txt file so it shouldn't be doing that right?

Brody•14mo ago

does the repo have the correct requirements.txt in it?

lionel•14mo ago

yep anyway. it's somewhat working now. I think there's an issue with my database, as I can't run it locally after some changes will have to fix that first build logs are fine, but deploy logs get stuck on accessing database will get back to you thanks so far

Brody•14mo ago

do you use a railway hosted database?

lionel•14mo ago

yeah postgres

Brody•14mo ago

can i see a screenshot of your service variables please

lionel•14mo ago

what's that?

Brody•14mo ago

the variables for the railway service

lionel•14mo ago

Brody•14mo ago

sorry thats not what i asked for

lionel•14mo ago

these ones?

Brody•14mo ago

that is a plugin i asked for the service variables

lionel•14mo ago

this one?

Brody•14mo ago

yes you should be using a reference variable, please delete that variable and replace it with a reference variable https://docs.railway.app/develop/variables#reference-variables

lionel•14mo ago

which one should i use for postgresql?

Brody•14mo ago

the same one you where already using, just this time its a reference

lionel•14mo ago

like this?

lionel•14mo ago

Brody•14mo ago

not at all https://docs.railway.app/develop/variables#reference-variables https://docs.railway.app/develop/variables#plugin-variables please read

lionel•14mo ago

this way?

Brody•14mo ago

not at all can you please read the docs sections i linked

lionel•14mo ago

Brody•14mo ago

can you please read the docs sections i linked

lionel•14mo ago

Brody•14mo ago

there we go now please show me your code that connects to the database

lionel•14mo ago

settings.py

Brody•14mo ago

you are still using sqlite you will need to add the rest of the pstgres reference variables to your service and then configure your settings.py like this https://github.com/railwayapp-templates/django/blob/main/mysite/settings.py#L81

lionel•14mo ago

Brody•14mo ago

looks fine at first glance

lionel•14mo ago

so it works, but there's an issue with my code so its not working if that makes sense ahah

Brody•14mo ago

whats your start command

lionel•14mo ago

python3 manage.py migrate && python3 manage.py collectstatic --no-input && gunicorn readinghood.wsgi

Brody•14mo ago

also looks good

lionel•14mo ago

yeah its my code i was using a mysql database and it was working

Brody•14mo ago

it was using sqlite not mysql

lionel•14mo ago

yeah i changed to sqlite to use the mdn tutorial doesnt seem to work using sqlite nor postgres

Brody•14mo ago

whats not working

lionel•14mo ago

will retry with mysql and get back to you "django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: relation "book" does not exist LINE 1: SELECT DISTINCT "book"."Category" FROM "book""

Brody•14mo ago

stay with postgres, mysql is costly

lionel•14mo ago

deployment_logs_web_...

Brody•14mo ago

just looks like a code issue to me tbh

lionel•14mo ago

it does too. but why was it working with mysql? anyway i'll have a look at the code after lunch thanks man!

Brody•14mo ago

no problem

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