# Rule failure while closing the staging repository

## post by jitsni on Jul 22, 2024

I am running into the following error while uploading the artifacts to staging repository. Any help is appreciated.

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```
Uploaded: https://oss.sonatype.org:443/service/local/staging/deployByRepositoryId/comgithubjitsni-1022/com/github/jitsni/mseven6/0.15/mseven6-0.15.pom.asc (529 B at 5.8 KB/sec)
[INFO]  * Upload of locally staged artifacts finished.
[INFO]  * Closing staging repository with ID "comgithubjitsni-1022".

Waiting for operation to complete...
......

[ERROR] Rule failure while trying to close staging repository with ID "comgithubjitsni-1022".
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Nexus Staging Rules Failure Report
[ERROR] ==================================
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Repository "comgithubjitsni-1022" failures
[ERROR]   Rule "operation-failed" failures
[ERROR]     * Operation has failed; repository has 1 activity notifications
[ERROR]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Cleaning up local stage directory after a Rule failure during close of staging repositories: [comgithubjitsni-1022]
```

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## post by mpiggott on Jul 23, 2024

Hi this forum is for Nexus the product, for Central you need [here](https://community.sonatype.com/c/central-repository/60).

## post by mfrost on Jul 23, 2024

Moved to the correct category for visibility.

## post by jitsni on Jul 23, 2024

Apparently, there was an issue around that time. It got resolved now.

## post by sina.madani on Jul 25, 2024

I’m still having this issue, everything was working before. I get a timeout after 5 minutes followed by a failure when using the nexus-staging-plugin. The report for rule violations / failures is empty so I suspect given the recent outages this is Sonatype messing up deployments again.