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Stuck at space problem

Hugging Face Spaces users report that their spaces are being auto-paused after 15 minutes of activity, with no logs and no ability to restart, forcing deletion and recreation. One user's space has been paused for five days and shows an "abusive" error despite working for months, while similar spaces remain unaffected. The issue can be resolved via the Hugging Face API.

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Stuck at space problem
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Now, it’s worked, but online 15 mins, after build completed, space work in 15 mins then the space auto d, no log, can’t restart only one action can do is delete the space and recreat. But it’s only work 15 mins. (This is patmcgee’s space @ ( Space stuck on "Building" for 9+ hours, no logs visible after Factory Rebuild - #6 by John6666 ) ←– he got that problem too !

Same for me it’s been 5 days since one of my space got d. And Restarting does not help (error 503).

Using a little snippet from someone else i was able to see the error and basicly it’s marked as “abusive“.

Tho it was working for more than 4 month and also i have others space with very similar code but different models, and thoses are not “d”.

You can check the spaces at : https://huggingface.co/IbarakiDouji

Check snippet :

from huggingface_hub import login; login()

from huggingface_hub import HfApi
api = HfApi()
spaces = list(api.list_spaces(author=‘IbarakiDouji’)) # change with your name
for s in spaces:
    try:
        rt = api.get_space_runtime(s.id)
        error = rt.raw.get(‘errorMessage’, ‘None’)
        print(f’{s.id}: stage={rt.stage}, error={error}‘)
    except Exception as e:
        print(f’{s.id}: Error getting runtime: {e}')

This issue can be resolved by utilizing the HuggingFace API

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