My Docker Space (free cpu-basic) has been stuck in APP_STARTING for over an hour and won’t come up. What I’m seeing: The API reports stage: APP_STARTING with hardware.current: null while hardware.requested: cpu-basic. So no machine is actually being allocated. In the Hardware settings, the “CPU b…

Same issue for me, it looks like a HF issue for me

I have been having the same issue for the last 2 hours. Could it be a Hugging Face issue?

Same here. @hysts I can confirm that I am experiencing the same issue on my side. I tested a newly created Docker Space with a minimal Streamlit application. The image builds successfully, but the Space remains stuck at “Starting”, and the container log shows only: ===== Application Startup ====…

Restarted just now…will see how it goes.

Space stuck in APP_STARTING indefinitely

Spaces

hysts July 8, 2026, 2:07pm 6

Should be fixed now. Thanks!

Persistent 503 Error Between Private Docker Spaces

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Space stuck in APP_STARTING indefinitely

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