I don’t know why its been happening lately, but my space (free one) is stuck on “building” whenever I make a commit (git push). The only change I remember after which it started happening was in my app.py: # Download chrome def download_chrome(): os.system("apt-get update") # Update package lis…

The app is getting stuck because it’s trying to install Chrome every time it starts up, which takes too long and causes the build to hang. Solution: In the app.py file, just comment out or remove this line: python download_chrome() # Comment out this line

here is Step-by-Step Fix Step 1: Open the file -Go to your Hugging Face Space Open the app.py file Step 2: Find the problem line Look for this line at the bottom of your code: python download_chrome() Step 3: Comment it out Add # at the beginning of that line: python # download_chrome()…

Hey, thanks for the prompt response. I also thought the same and had commented this piece of code for quite sometime now but to no avail. I’ll factory reset once more just to be sure. Will update soon Thanks

Well it looks like the space is broken. Its still showing “Building” no matter how many times i commit commented code or wait.

It seems be affecting mulitple people right now [image] My Space is stuck on “Starting on T4” all day 🤗Datasets My Space has been stuck on “Starting on T4” for several hours and it doesn’t move forward or enter the “Running” state. I’ve tried restarting it, but the issue p…

I see. Well all we can do is wait I guess. Thanks for this update

I’m having the same issues and HF support is gaslighting me to upgrade to a PRO account to use ZeroGPU. What a clown show.

Same issue with me. Trying for a last few hours.

Perhaps related info. [image] My Space is stuck on “Starting on T4” all day 🤗Datasets From Hugging Face Discord (“specific case” refers it ): Adam In this specific case I’m asking in the thread to verify, but generally, if a space is building for days etc then it’s been …

Help: Space stuck on "building" forever

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Help: Space stuck on "building" forever

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