Serve deploy failing because ray actor died

here are the logs
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/serve”, line 8, in
sys.exit(cli())
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/click/core.py”, line 1157, in call
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/click/core.py”, line 1078, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/click/core.py”, line 1688, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/click/core.py”, line 1434, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/click/core.py”, line 783, in invoke
return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/ray/serve/scripts.py”, line 260, in deploy
ServeSubmissionClient(address).deploy_applications(config)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/ray/dashboard/modules/serve/sdk.py”, line 80, in deploy_applications
self._raise_error(response)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/ray/dashboard/modules/dashboard_sdk.py”, line 283, in _raise_error
raise RuntimeError(
RuntimeError: Request failed with status code 500: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/ray/dashboard/optional_utils.py”, line 291, in decorator
return await f(self, *args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/ray/dashboard/modules/serve/serve_rest_api_impl.py”, line 61, in check
return await func(self, *args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/ray/dashboard/modules/serve/serve_rest_api_impl.py”, line 176, in put_all_applications
client = await serve_start_async(
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/ray/serve/_private/api.py”, line 217, in serve_start_async
await ray.remote(_start_controller)
ray.exceptions.RayTaskError(RayActorError): ray::_start_controller() (pid=359, ip=172.18.0.2)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/ray/serve/_private/api.py”, line 175, in _start_controller
ray.get(
ray.exceptions.RayActorError: The actor died unexpectedly before finishing this task.
class_name: ProxyActor
actor_id: 5f8d9322543722dfbf41a3b701000000
pid: 449
name: SERVE_CONTROLLER_ACTOR:SERVE_PROXY_ACTOR-cdce7550d227b2025d85ddfce88af01692355f9bce4d2af0e3a73f1f
namespace: serve
ip: 172.18.0.2
The actor is dead because it was killed by ray.kill.