# Mender rootfs artifact deploy not starting **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [June 3, 2021, 7:07am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-rootfs-artifact-deploy-not-starting/3708 "2021-06-03T07:07:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Dave](https://hub.mender.io/u/Dave)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 7:32am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-rootfs-artifact-deploy-not-starting/3708/10 "2021-06-07T07:32:20Z")
Probably the following thread is related to your issue: > [@Issue: mender-deployments SerializationError](https://hub.mender.io/t/issue-mender-deployments-serializationerror/3577): > > Hello everyone! Issue After deploying production version of mender-server following instructions in docs, I encountered problem with creation of deployments. First of all it was taking far too long (about 4 hours without even starting the deployment - it was stuck at pending status). After checking logs from the container mender-deployments I found out that it is struggling with an error: level=error msg="error reaching artifact storage service: SerializationError: failed to decode REST XML r… Though we did not find a solution for it yet. --- _[View the full topic](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-rootfs-artifact-deploy-not-starting/3708)._