Github Actions "Set up job" fails with tar error

Since earlier today, a Github Actions workflow which has been working reliably for many months has started failing with a tar error. Is there a disk space issue on the build node (in which case, how and where do I report that?) or something internal to the component? The log output provides no clues as to what’s wrong.

Here’s a recent failed run, with all the diagnostic arrows expanded (https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703125729?check_suite_focus=true):

[build (3.10)](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703125729?check_suite_focus=true#logs)
failed 3 hours ago in 4s
Search logs
4s
Current runner version: '2.29[1](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703125729?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:1).1'
Operating System
  Ubuntu
  [2](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703125729?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:2)0.04.4
  LTS
Virtual Environment
  Environment: ubuntu-20.04
  Version: 20220515.1
  Included Software: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/blob/ubuntu20/20220515.1/images/linux/Ubuntu2004-Readme.md
  Image Release: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/releases/tag/ubuntu20%2F20220515.1
Virtual Environment Provisioner
  1.0.0.0-main-20220516-1
GITHUB_TOKEN Permissions
  Contents: read
  Metadata: read
Secret source: Actions
Prepare workflow directory
Prepare all required actions
Getting action download info
Download action repository 'actions/checkout@v[3](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703125729?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:3)' (SHA:25[4](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703125729?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:4)1b1294d2704b0964813337f33b291d3f8[5](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703125729?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:5)9[6](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703125729?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:7)b)
Download action repository 'actions/setup-python@v3' (SHA:98f2ad02fd48d05[7](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703125729?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:8)ee3b4d4f66525b231c3e52b6)
Download action repository 'actions/cache@v2' (SHA:937d244753[8](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703125729?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:9)1cd[9](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703125729?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:10)c75ae6db12cb4e79714b926ed)
Error: Can't use 'tar -xzf' extract archive file: /home/runner/work/_actions/_temp_5c7ba8d5-a56d-4632-9e2b-a9e93af7c2bd/ac649a82-c6ff-48aa-a635-b5a5[10](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703125729?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:11)caccfa.tar.gz. return code: 2.

For comparison, here is a successful job from just a few minutes apart (https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true)

[build (3.10)](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#logs)
succeeded 3 hours ago in 6m 14s
Search logs
2s
Current runner version: '2.29[1](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:1).1'
Operating System
  Ubuntu
  [2](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:2)0.04.4
  LTS
Virtual Environment
  Environment: ubuntu-20.04
  Version: 20220515.1
  Included Software: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/blob/ubuntu20/20220515.1/images/linux/Ubuntu2004-Readme.md
  Image Release: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/releases/tag/ubuntu20%2F20220515.1
Virtual Environment Provisioner
  1.0.0.0-main-20220516-1
GITHUB_TOKEN Permissions
  Contents: read
  Metadata: read
Secret source: Actions
Prepare workflow directory
Prepare all required actions
Getting action download info
Download action repository 'actions/checkout@v[3](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:3)' (SHA:25[4](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:4)1b1294d2704b0964813337f33b291d3f8[5](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:5)9[6](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:7)b)
Download action repository 'actions/setup-python@v3' (SHA:98f2ad02fd48d05[7](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:8)ee3b4d4f66525b231c3e52b6)
Download action repository 'actions/cache@v2' (SHA:937d244753[8](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:9)1cd[9](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:10)c75ae6db[12](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:14)cb4e797[14](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:17)b926ed)
4s
Run actions/checkout@v3
Syncing repository: Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector
Getting Git version info
Temporarily overriding HOME='/home/runner/work/_temp/be5f8385-7824-4ba7-8c77-a[18](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:22)4[20](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:1:24)cd646d' before making global git config changes
Adding repository directory to the temporary git global config as a safe directory
/usr/bin/git config --global --add safe.directory /home/runner/work/SmokeDetector/SmokeDetector
Deleting the contents of '/home/runner/work/SmokeDetector/SmokeDetector'
Initializing the repository
Disabling automatic garbage collection
Setting up auth
Fetching the repository
Determining the checkout info
Checking out the ref
/usr/bin/git log -[1](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:2:1) --format='%H'
'990827ffe4b3[37](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:2:41)b7dfb9[43](https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/runs/6703075979?check_suite_focus=true#step:2:48)ad954785cfb57d6379'
...

When I checked recent builds, 5 out of 22 in the last hour had succeeded, the rest failed with this error.

The failing workflow is a simple run-of-the-mill one https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.yml

I created an issue within our project for tracking this; https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/issues/7046

[chrweiss]

The same occured to me just now. Are there any fixes or workarounds for this issue?

[strobeflash]

Works for me now.