pulumi/pulumi · error

no snapshot found

Error message

no snapshot found

What it means

listResources' snapshot loader returns this when the current stack's Snapshot() yields nil — i.e. the backend reports no snapshot at all for the stack. State commands have nothing to enumerate or search, so they abort with 'no snapshot found'.

Source

Thrown at pkg/cmd/pulumi/state/io.go:344

		s, err := cmdStack.RequireStack(
			ctx,
			sink,
			ws,
			lm,
			stackName,
			cmdStack.LoadOnly,
			opts,
			"",
		)
		if err != nil {
			return "", err
		}
		*snap, err = s.Snapshot(ctx, secrets.DefaultProvider)
		if err != nil {
			return "", err
		}
		if *snap == nil {
			return "", errors.New("no snapshot found")
		}
	}
	urnList := make([]string, len((*snap).Resources))
	for i, r := range (*snap).Resources {
		urnList[i] = string(r.URN)
	}
	var urn string
	err := survey.AskOne(&survey.Select{
		Message: prompt,
		Options: urnList,
	}, &urn, survey.WithValidator(survey.Required), ui.SurveyIcons(cmdutil.GetGlobalColorization()))
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}
	result := resource.URN(urn)
	contract.Assertf(result.IsValid(),
		"Because we chose from an existing URN, it must be valid")
	return result, nil

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Solutions

1. Confirm the stack has resources: run `pulumi stack` or `pulumi stack export` first
2. Deploy once (`pulumi up`) so a snapshot exists before state operations
3. Check you selected the intended stack (`pulumi stack ls`, `pulumi stack select`)
4. Restore the checkpoint from backend backups if the stack should have state

// ensure the stack has a snapshot before state operations
if strings.TrimSpace(stackExport()) == "" || len(stackResources()) == 0 {
    return errors.New("stack has no state; run `pulumi up` first")
}

When it happens

Trigger: Running `pulumi state` commands against a stack that has never been deployed (empty state), or a backend whose checkpoint for the stack is missing/blank.

Common situations: Selecting a freshly created but never-updated stack (`pulumi stack init` then `pulumi state delete ...`); pointing at the wrong project/stack; backend storage corruption losing the checkpoint.

Related errors

• stack has no snapshot yet; cannot resolve --provider %s
• getting snapshot: %w
• load stack snapshot: %w
• %s: snapshot integrity failure; it was already written, but
• snapshot integrity failure; refusing to use it: %w

AI-assisted analysis of pulumi/pulumi@793f7b2e16 (2026-08-31). Data as JSON: /api/errors/bf7caccd7ebe8599. Report an issue: GitHub.