Sleeping spaces are not restarting
Hugging Face Forums [Unofficial]
March 10, 2026
Yeah. I don’t think it happened much before, too…
Link: Another ongoing infrastructure issue (unsure related or not):
Space stuck at "Starting" / Runtime init failed: curl (6) Could not resolve host: huggingface.co Spaces
> Hello, My Hugging Face Space suddenly stopped working after running normally for about 2 months. Now it gets stuck at Starting / Restarting, and eventually shows a runtime initialization error. The key error message is: Initialization step 'init' failed with exit code: 6 curl: (6) Could not resolve host: huggingface.co Warning: Problem : timeout. Will retry in 1 seconds. This suggests a DNS resolution failure inside the Space container. What I have already tried I performed several tests …
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