Azure worker role getting stuck in Role state Unknown

Question

Azure toolkit 1.5

1. Create New project
2. Add worker role
3. Hit F5

The deployments get stuck in:

[fabric] Role Instance: deployment(189).WindowsAzureProject1.WorkerRole1.0

[fabric] Role state Unknown

Eventually the deployment times out.

Any ideas on how to debug this?

Answer 1

I personally solved this problem by removing *:808 binding in IIS Manager for Default Website.

Answer 2

The required Azure assemblies may be missing from the package you are deploying to Azure.

Double check that each Azure assembly your project is referencing has the copy to local property set to true.

The following article may help to debug the problem:

Debugging MSDN article