Container exited unexpectedly - What does this error means?

[KellySun95]

Hi,

I have a dataset scheduled to refresh at 6 pm yesterday. But when I checked the status today, I saw this error message, which I have never seen it before. And at the same time, I got an email said the Data Refresh has been disabled.

Data source error: We're sorry, an error occurred during evaluation.;Container exited unexpectedly with code 0x0000DEAD. PID: 8028. Used features: (none). Container exited unexpectedly with code 0x0000DEAD. PID: 8028. Used features: (none). Container exited unexpectedly with code 0x0000DEAD. PID: 8028. Used features: (none). Container exited unexpectedly with code 0x0000DEAD. PID: 8028.. The exception was raised by the IDbCommand interface.

Cluster URI: WABI-US-EAST2-redirect.analysis.windows.net

Activity ID: e5f7ee55-cbf0-4fec-91f8-3d54f33bdf4f

Request ID: 124e1e7a-be38-4e38-961d-843b07bf3b86

Time: 2020-09-08 01:15:36Z

The dataset I'm working on is pretty large (around 10G). And the refresh is scheduled in a premium workspace. In the past, it got throttled several times during a scheduled refresh because of the memory issue on capacity. But I never got this message before. I checked the gateway setting; it's all good.

Please help me take a look at the error message, and I really appreciate all help!!

Thank you,

Kelly

[v-kelly-msft]

Hi  @KellySun95 ,

Check the similar thread below:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/container-exited-unexpectedly-with-code-0x80131904-used-fea...

Best Regards,
Kelly

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[lbendlin]

Come on, you have to at least appreciate the dark humor (humour) in the error message. I think that's pretty nifty.

It's also nothing new - I vividly remember a similar period about two months ago where we all of a sudden got bombarded with these messages.  Most likely Microsoft have again messed around with the service without properly testing the changes.

Since you are on Premium, raise a ticket with Microsoft and ask them (nay, demand from them) to give you an explanation and an assurance that this will be fixed again.