My app is in a state where users don’t have access to their canisters for the purpose of upgrading their canister code. To perform this upgrade, it requires that I upgrade the canister code in the backend canister and now of all times, the backend canister refuses to stop-- suspending the app in a s…

Can you try raising the canister freezing threshold like was done in this thread? [image] Queue + failing heartbeat + stopping canister = death spiral Developers hey all, @nomeata yes, we do not allow heartbeats to run when the canister is in stopping state ( GitHub link )…

@icme I was able to successfully raise the freezing threshold, but now I’m unable to make any changes to the canister status nor the code because the canister is now frozen. when i attempt to do either, I get the following error: Error: Failed to stop canister ... Caused by: Failed to stop canister…

Can you now try to lower the threshold to its previous value and then immediately stop the canister (i.e concat the two commands together)? Hopefully the loop was killed so you can stop your canister before any of your user’s requests re-trigger it.

@icme , I did that and it worked!. i was able to stop the canister. Crisis averted. @diegop , no need. thank you both for responding quickly.

Awesome! :partying_face: @diegop This time, we were able to solve the issue, but I’d imagine that for a high traffic application or one where the infinite loop is baked more deeply into the canister it might be more difficult. It would be nice to have a single command type of mechanism similar to…

[image] icme: It would be nice to have a single command type of mechanism similar to raising the freezing threshold, lowering it to its original value, and then stopping the canister that would guarantee the first action taken after lowering the freezing threshold would be for the canister to be…

I think this mechanism isn’t strictly necessary actually. It’s possible to stop a frozen canister, but the trick is that another canister needs to send the stop message so that the frozen canister doesn’t need to pay for it. So the following steps would always work and don’t require any atomic combi…

Infinite Loop preventing backend canister from stopping need help ASAP

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Can you try raising the canister freezing threshold like was done in this thread?

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