Unknown error creating a project - google-cloud-platform

I just came back to google's cloud platform and tools to work on a new project after not having touched my account for 9 months or so. The account has billing information. I just accepted the $300, 2 month trial on my account. Now, when I attempt to create new projects (in any and every way I have tried), I get a notification that says "Unknown error." The notification also provides a 'RETRY' option, which produces a new notification for the same error.

For me, the error was occurring because I was using my school email, which is technically a Google email, but maybe the school doesn't subscribe to all of Google's features or something. I logged in with my regular gmail account, and I was able to create a new project.

Ok, so the issue has to do with the project name or id. I appear to be able to create projects, just not using the names I would prefer as there is something about having the string '-dot-' in the name or id that throws an unknown error. I'll have to find the best way to contact google for help with specific bugs. In this case the name I want to use is 'mywebsite-dot-com' and that auto-generates a project id that is identical ('mywebsite-dot-com').
Update: Google support did respond and let me know that '-dot-' is indeed a hidden keyword and cannot be used in the project ID.

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Google Cloud Platform adding OAuth Client ID says Requested entity already exists

I created a OAuth 2 client Id in Google Cloud Platform(GCP) in our production application. However this was only for internal use, so I removed it and tried to add it again in our development GCP project.
However when trying to add it, it says
Save failed
Requested entity already exists
Tracking number: xxx
What am I doing wrong? Do I need to do some extra steps to completely remove the OAuth 2 client id? I removed them around a month ago already, so it really should be gone by now.
It seems after 1 month the problem has automatically resolved itself. I assume it just soft deletes when you press delete, and then hard deletes one month later. Pretty annoying system.
You can also remove the entire project to get rid of unwanted ghost clients, but obviously you then lose all configuration.

Can I reuse the deleted project ID on google cloud platform? By the way, I found something wrong in google cloud platform docs

To interact with Google Cloud resources, you must provide the identifying project information for every request. A project can be identified in the following ways:
Project name: the customized name you chose when you created the project, or when you activated an API that required you to create a project ID. Note that you can't reuse the project name of a deleted project.
Project ID: a unique identifier for your project, composed of the project name and a randomly assigned number.
Project number: a number that's automatically generated by the server and assigned to your project.
https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-projects
As I know, project name can be changed whenever I hope, and I have tested that even I can use the exist project's name as a new project name.
There is an slight error in the documentation :
The behavior is:
1. You can reuse the project name of an existing project, many times over.
2. You can reuse the project name of a deleted project.
3. You can reuse the project name of a deleted and purged project.
It is the reuse of Project IDs that is not an available option.
To clarify as I have previously written, even after the purge from the system, (30 days) you will still be unable to reuse the project id - it is permanently recorded in Google’s system.
Maybe I can help a little, I would like to let you know that there may be a better way to deal with this issue. It would probably be best if you create a variable in your system (called something like : MY_CURRENT_PROJECT_ID) which is used anywhere that the project id is needed. This would mean that if the project id changed you would only have to change it in one place.
I hope this helps.

Cannot access GCP projects anymore

my development team has been sparingly trying out Google Cloud Platform for about 10 months. Every member was using the same account to access GCP, say team#example.com. We created three projects under this account.
Starting in about July, we cannot see these projects in the GCP console anymore. Instead, there is one project named My First Project, which we have never created.
However, our original GCP projects still seem to exist, as we can still access for example some of the Google Cloud Functions via HTTP.
Therefore, I have the impression that the connection between our account and the projects has been lost.
OR
A second account with the same name has been accidentally created?
Additional curiosities:
Yesterday I tried to create a Google Cloud Identity account, using team#example.com. It did not work; when entering that address the input field showed an error like "Please use another email address. This is a private Google account." (It was actually in German, so I'm guessing the translation.)
When I go to accounts.google.com, the account selection screen offers team#example.com twice. No matter which entry I choose, I always end up in the GCP console with My First Project.
How can I recover my team's GCP projects?
Which Google support site may I consult to check on the account(s)?
Usually, there is a 1:1 mapping between a certain email address and a Google Account. However, this can be broken under certain situations - for example when creating / deleting / migrating G Suite or Cloud Identity accounts under the domain the email address uses.
If you hit such an edge case, there's not much you can do yourself. Reach out to GCP Support who should be able to resolve the issue for you.
Keep in mind that orphaned resources have a timer on them before they are deleted - so act quickly and do not rely on apps still responding being a sign that they will continue indefinitely.

Google Cloud service stopped and never restarting

I have been using the Google Cloud speech recognition service for some time, through a python application.
Due to accidentally copying my Google Cloud json file to a GitHub shared location (I was doing a backup), I suddenly got a warning from Google Cloud that I was violating the rules as json is private. Then, I promptly removed the file, but nevertheless, I got an email saying that my resources for my project "santo1" were suspended, saying some reasons of "cryptocurrency mining" which I have no idea.
I applied to reactivate and my appeal was accepted promptly, saying that my resources about santo1 were reinstated.
Unfortunately, the speech recognition still didn't work.
Launching it from python, it records from the microphone but no answer from the service - and no error messages at all.
Then I attempted the following:
regenerate API
create a new json
create a new project with its own json under my same google account
as suggested by the Google Cloud chat operator, I manually clicked play to the VM resource that appeared stopped
create a new gmail account, with another new project, setup with billing and everything (also reconfigured through "gcloud init")
None of these attempts worked.
I need assistance on this, as the chat operator didn't seem capable of telling me more.
Thank you in advance
Best regards
I would recommend you to contact GCP support for this case as your cloud service could be still in suspended status regardless your access is OK
Apparently, the access key is stolen and used by hackers and they did crypto mining using your GCP account, hence your service account was banned
If it's your testing account/project, you should consider to create a new project rather than continue with it, the hacker could create some other services which you may not realize until too late
Worse case is it's your PROD service, then you'd better review the bill and transaction report thoroughly

How to set up ray project autoscaling on GCP

I am having real difficulty setting up ray auto-scaling on google cloud compute. I can get it to work on AWS no problem, but I keep running into the following error when running ray up:
googleapiclient.errors.HttpError: https://cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/v1/projects?alt=json returned "Service accounts cannot create projects without a parent.">
My project is part of an organization, so I don't understand where this is coming from, or why it would need to create a project in the first place. I have entered my project id in the yaml file like I normally do for AWS.
Thank you very much. I appreciate any help I can get!!
The error message referring to service account, together with the fact that the project already exists, suggests that the googlecloudapiclient used by Ray Autoscaler is authenticated for a service account that doesn't have access to the project.
If this is true, then here's what I believe happens. Typically, when running Ray GCP Autoscaler, it will first check if the project with the given id exists. In your case, this request returns "not found" because there's no project with the given id associated with the service account. Now, because the project did not exist, Ray will automatically try to create one for you. Typically, if we created a new GCP project with a user account (i.e. non-service account), the newly created project would be associated with the user account's default organization. Service accounts, however, must specify a parent organization explicitly when creating a new project. If we look at the ray.autoscaler.config._create_project function, we see that the arguments passed to the projects.create method omit the 'parent' argument, which explains why you see the error.
To verify if this is true (and hopefully fix the problem), you could change the account used for authenticating with the googlecloudapiclient. I believe that the credentials used for the googlecloudapiclient requests are the same as used by the Google Cloud SDK, so you should be able to configure the accounts using the gcloud auth login command.
I think the Ray Autoscaler could be improved by either allowing user to explicitly specify the parent organization when creating a new project, or at least by providing a more elaborate error message for this particular case.
I hope this fixes your problem. If it doesn't, and you believe that that it's a problem with the Autoscaler, don't hesitate to open an issue or feature request to the Ray Issues page!