# ERROR: resin failed to start **URL:** \ **Category:** Product support\ **Created:** [November 21, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-resin-failed-to-start/2199 "2017-11-21T02:26:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ymaia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/da6949/32.png) [@ymaia](https://forums.balena.io/u/ymaia)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-resin-failed-to-start/2199/1 "2017-11-21T02:26:30Z")
Hello, I’ve been using resin on a Raspberry Pi 3. Latest OS (2.7.5) and supervisor (6.3.6). If I power cycle the RPi a few times, especially if I don’t wait for it to boot up the OS / application completely, occasionally I get this error in the log: ```auto 20.11.17 01:06:52 (-0200) * Starting Resin.io User Application ... 20.11.17 01:06:52 (-0200) * start-stop-daemon: /etc/resinApp.sh is already running 20.11.17 01:06:52 (-0200) [!!] 20.11.17 01:06:52 (-0200) * ERROR: resin failed to start ``` It gets stuck there. The application just doesn’t start, no matter how much I wait. If I restart the application from Resin’s dashboard, things go back to normal. Can someone elaborate on the nature of the error, and how can I prevent the boot process from getting stuck? Best regards. ---
**Author:** ![majorz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/majorz/32/639_2.png) [@majorz](https://forums.balena.io/u/majorz)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-resin-failed-to-start/2199/3 "2017-11-23T10:23:27Z")
@ymaia, Hi, I think we did not answer earlier as the thread was not in the Troubleshooting section, but I moved it there now. Are you using Alpine base image for you application? There was a recent fix, which targeted such an issue: [https://github.com/resin-io-library/base-images/pull/338](https://github.com/resin-io-library/base-images/pull/338) If it is Alpine, using the latest base image should resolve this. ---
**Author:** ![ymaia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/da6949/32.png) [@ymaia](https://forums.balena.io/u/ymaia)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-resin-failed-to-start/2199/8 "2017-11-23T13:32:59Z")
Hi @majorz Exactly. I’m running Alpine. So, all I have to do is to issue a “git push” in order to have my application built again (now incorporating the fix), right? Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![majorz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/majorz/32/639_2.png) [@majorz](https://forums.balena.io/u/majorz)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-resin-failed-to-start/2199/9 "2017-11-23T13:37:40Z")
Yes, if you have not specified an explicit docker image tag for the Alpine base image it should default to `latest` and a git push will pull the new version from the docker registry, which will be used during the build stage. Please let us know how that worked for you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ymaia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/da6949/32.png) [@ymaia](https://forums.balena.io/u/ymaia)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-resin-failed-to-start/2199/10 "2017-11-23T14:00:50Z")
Great! Actually, I’m using: FROM resin/%%RESIN\_MACHINE\_NAME%%-alpine-node:8-slim Let me know if this won’t include the fix, for some reason. I’ll begin testing immediately and let you know how it goes. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![majorz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/majorz/32/639_2.png) [@majorz](https://forums.balena.io/u/majorz)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-resin-failed-to-start/2199/11 "2017-11-23T14:38:12Z")
Yes, I just checked and the `8-slim` tagged version was updated 5 days ago and should include the fix. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![ymaia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/da6949/32.png) [@ymaia](https://forums.balena.io/u/ymaia)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-resin-failed-to-start/2199/12 "2017-12-04T16:50:34Z")
It works! I wasn’t able to reproduce the problem after the update. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![majorz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/majorz/32/639_2.png) [@majorz](https://forums.balena.io/u/majorz)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2017, 8:47am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-resin-failed-to-start/2199/13 "2017-12-05T08:47:46Z")
Excellent! Thanks for letting us know that it worked.