Workflow executions does not stop automatically

[Anthony_Emmanuel]

Hi, i just made a fresh n8n installation. Everything worked fine, but the workflow executions does not stop automatically even when it is complete except it is turned off manually. the workflow runs fine and gives the expected output. I have no idea how to fix this. I have tried restarting the docker container severally but all to no avail.

Information on your n8n setup

• n8n version: Version 1.41.1
  “DB_TYPE=postgresdb”, “PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin”,
  “NODE_VERSION=18.20.2”,
  “YARN_VERSION=1.22.19”,
  “NODE_ICU_DATA=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/full-icu”,
  “N8N_VERSION=1.41.1”,
  “N8N_RELEASE_TYPE=stable”,
  “SHELL=/bin/sh”
• **Running n8n via (Docker)
• **Operating system:Ubuntu 20.04.6

[n8n]

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• n8n version:
• Database (default: SQLite):
• n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):
• Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app):
• Operating system:

[mariana-na]

Hi @Anthony_Emmanuel ,

Welcome to the community!

I’m sorry this is happening. This seems to have come up quite a few times to other users, but in older versions.
While I do some more research, won’t you expand on:
Does this happen in all of your workflows or just the one? - if just this one, would you mind sharing it?
Do you get any error or info in the logs?

[Anthony_Emmanuel]

It happens for all workflows. I have also tried re-installing it, but it’s still the same result.

Here is my current enviroment variables

“Env”: [
“WEBHOOK_URL=https://********.com”,
“DB_POSTGRESDB_USER=i**********”,
“DB_POSTGRESDB_PASSWORD=",
“DB_POSTGRESDB_HOST=n8n-db”,
“DB_POSTGRESDB_PORT=5432”,
"DB_POSTGRESDB_DATABASE=”,
“N8N_HOST=**********.com”,
“NODE_ENV=production”,
“DB_TYPE=postgresdb”,
“PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin”,
“NODE_VERSION=18.20.2”,
“YARN_VERSION=1.22.19”,
“NODE_ICU_DATA=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/full-icu”,
“N8N_VERSION=1.41.1”,
“N8N_RELEASE_TYPE=stable”,
“SHELL=/bin/sh”
],

[mariana-na]

Appologies for the waiting time on this one!

What information do you see in your logs when this happens? Do you get any errors?

If you could ensure you have some logging variables set up Logs environment variables | n8n Docs and then run the workflows again and share the outputs that you get in logging, that could help track the issue.

As a workaround for the meantime, you could edit your workflow settings to enable a workflow timeout and prevent the endless executions. You can do that by navigating to the … menu at the top right of your screen and selecting settings.
Then in the settings list you can toggle the “Timeout Workflow” option to true and define the time limits that suit you: