# Gateway Faulted - Error during context startup

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-faulted-error-during-context-startup/97032>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 9, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-faulted-error-during-context-startup/97032 "2024-10-09T16:13:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Rats](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/rats/32/68478_2.png) [@Rats](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rats)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-faulted-error-during-context-startup/97032/1 "2024-10-09T16:13:50Z")

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Where would I look to fix this issue?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/b/3/b3322d28fdf1c1ffb4a0bd3382451727108b9e06.png)

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-faulted-error-during-context-startup/97032/2 "2024-10-09T16:16:10Z")

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Looks like the project manifest JSON files for one of your projects in the `$IGNITION/data/projects` directory is malformed.

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**Author:** ![Rats](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/rats/32/68478_2.png) [@Rats](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rats)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-faulted-error-during-context-startup/97032/3 "2024-10-09T16:20:40Z")

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Should I just start going through each project and find which $IGNITION/data/projects/x/project.json has been most recently modified?

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-faulted-error-during-context-startup/97032/4 "2024-10-09T16:28:59Z")

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If you don't have too many that might be reasonable.

Any idea how you might have ended up in this state? Hard shutdown / power failure? Bad git pull?

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**Author:** ![Rats](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/rats/32/68478_2.png) [@Rats](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rats)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-faulted-error-during-context-startup/97032/5 "2024-10-09T16:33:15Z")

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This gateway has over 20+ people working off of it. There are so many fingers in this I have no idea what could of happened. Found the issue I think, somebody did a git pull which has a merge conflict.

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**Author:** ![Rats](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/rats/32/68478_2.png) [@Rats](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rats)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-faulted-error-during-context-startup/97032/6 "2024-10-09T16:55:06Z")

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It's fixed now, somebody pushed their merge conflict into one of the project manifest files. I just had to delete the conflicting lines and restart the gateway, and it is back to normal now.