the zone does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request/ the resource is not ready

Question

I failed to start my instance (through the web browser), it gave me the error:

"The zone 'projects/XXXXX/zones/europe-west4-b' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later."

I thought it might be the quota problem at first, after checking my quota, it showed all good. Actually, I listed the available zones, europe-west4-b was available, but I still gave a shot to move the zone. Then I tried "gcloud compute instances move XXXX --zone europe-west4-b --destination-zone europe-west4-c", however, it still failed, popped up the error:

"ERROR: (gcloud.compute.instances.move) Instance cannot be moved while in state: TERMINATED"

Okay, terminated... then I tried to restart it by "gcloud compute instances reset XXX", the error showed in the way:

ERROR: (gcloud.compute.instances.reset) Could not fetch resource: - The resource 'projects/XXXXX/zones/europe-west4-b/instances/XXX' is not ready

I searched the error, some people solved this problem by deleting the disk. While I don't want to wipe the memory, how could I solve this problem?

BTW, I only have one instance, with one persistent disk attached.

Answer 1

Even I'm getting the same error. I have waited for 24 hours and tried. But still no luck. For me, it's not transient.The zone 'projects/XXXX/zones/europe-west2-c' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later. I had to create entirely new instance to come over it.