Coder.com•6mo ago

GCP VMs fail to start sporadically with "desired_status can only accept RUNNING value" error

We are using Coder to manager GCP VMs with devcontainers, and occasionally the machine will get into a state where it is unable to start, getting the following terraform error:

Error: When creating an instance, desired_status can only accept RUNNING value
on main.tf line 334, in resource "google_compute_instance" "vm":
  334: resource "google_compute_instance" "vm" {

Error: When creating an instance, desired_status can only accept RUNNING value
on main.tf line 334, in resource "google_compute_instance" "vm":
  334: resource "google_compute_instance" "vm" {

Are there any tools available to debug this? One workaround I've seen is to change some of the machine parameters that cause it to be re-created, e.g. it's size, but that's rather annoying to have to do.

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