kubernetes/kops · error

deadline exceeded executing task %v. Example error: %v

Error message

deadline exceeded executing task %v. Example error: %v

What it means

Thrown by the task executor when a task that previously failed has retried past its deadline (MaxTaskDuration since it first became runnable). The message names the task key and includes the last underlying error as an example, so the real cause is the repeated lastError — typically a cloud API that keeps failing (rate limits, credential issues, eventual consistency).

Source

Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/executor.go:107

		var canRun []*taskState[T]
		doneCount := 0
		for _, ts := range taskStates {
			if ts.done {
				doneCount++
				continue
			}
			ready := true
			for _, dep := range ts.dependencies {
				if !dep.done {
					ready = false
					break
				}
			}
			if ready {
				if ts.deadline.IsZero() {
					ts.deadline = time.Now().Add(e.options.MaxTaskDuration)
				} else if time.Now().After(ts.deadline) {
					return fmt.Errorf("deadline exceeded executing task %v. Example error: %v", ts.key, ts.lastError)
				}
				canRun = append(canRun, ts)
			}
		}

		klog.Infof("Tasks: %d done / %d total; %d can run", doneCount, len(taskStates), len(canRun))
		if len(canRun) == 0 {
			break
		}

		progress := false

		var tasks []*taskState[T]
		tasks = append(tasks, canRun...)

		taskErrors := e.forkJoin(ctx, tasks)
		var errs []error
		for i, err := range taskErrors {

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Solutions

1. Read the "Example error" in the message — it carries the actual recurring failure to fix
2. For throttling/consistency errors, increase the task timeout so retries can succeed
3. Check credentials, quotas and network reachability of the cloud API for the named task
4. If the deadline is too aggressive for large clusters, tune the executor's MaxTaskDuration option

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/executor.go:107 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

Understand the failure class

• Timeouts: ETIMEDOUT, deadlines, and hung requests — what actually expires when a request times out.

AI-assisted analysis of kubernetes/kops@4c8573c808 (2026-09-05). Data as JSON: /api/errors/59ff1ee104e9857c. Report an issue: GitHub.