ECS tasks take a while to reach running from pending

[rohit756]

Hi

I am facing this issue
when i try to launch a task, status of task is in pending state from a while, and event log shows this messages

72cd49ee-4d88-4a52-a4c5-d3b2239e5ee9
2018-07-16 09:22:16 -0500
service carealign-admin is unable to consistently start tasks successfully. For more information, see the Troubleshooting section.
623f1fb0-ad3e-4a73-91cf-eb8052b7cc68
2018-07-16 09:09:45 -0500
service carealign-admin has started 1 tasks: task 1a4459fa-2bba-482b-a63e-1189b4363da7.
c16038f2-c8e0-49e1-9f7d-05e4128768cd
2018-07-16 08:59:24 -0500
service carealign-admin is unable to consistently start tasks successfully. For more information, see the Troubleshooting section.
a795ff7e-5174-4bcb-9eeb-7fe3976eaffe
2018-07-16 08:46:16 -0500
service carealign-admin has started 1 tasks: task a333ed7d-a2fb-4397-8c62-dd1c2be80153.
9ff516e5-bd4e-470c-a081-fdcc111497af
2018-07-16 08:35:53 -0500
service carealign-admin is unable to consistently start tasks successfully. For more information, see the Troubleshooting section.

any ideas
Thanks

[fenxiong]

Hi @rohit756 ,
The event log shows that your task repeatedly failed to start. This page contains some instructions on how to debug this issue. You can also check the stopped task error to see why your task stopped. Feel free to let me know you need further assistance on solving this issue.

Thanks,
Feng

[rohit756]

Hi Feng I appreciate your reply Issue solved by downgrading ecs-agent version from 18.1 to 17.2 as windows ecs agent latest version has a bug, which is not able to pull image from ECR automatically to the container.

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On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 7:07 PM, fenxiong ***@***.***> wrote: Hi @rohit756 <https://github.com/rohit756> , The event log shows that your task repeatedly failed to start. This page <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/service-throttle-logic.html> contains some instructions on how to debug this issue. You can also check the stopped task error <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/stopped-task-errors.html> to see why your task stopped. Feel free to let me know you need further assistance on solving this issue. Thanks, Feng — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1453 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AYCnuQw2HLD0slrGEop_T80L4adw9-1xks5uInCsgaJpZM4VRXx6> .

[richardpen]

@rohit756 Closing this issue now as your problem has been solved.

[sergedomk]

@richardpen,

@rohit756 resolved the issue by downgrading ecs-agent to get around the bug in the latest version which caused it.

Any chance you could link this to the issue for addressing the bug in 18.1?

[richardpen]

@sergedomk I'm linking this to issue #1396