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Stuck on "Job is about to start running on the hosted runner"

See original GitHub issue

Describe the bug

Windows and Linux actions keep getting stuck at “about to start running”. Possibly similar to https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1140.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Push new commit
  2. Actions run
  3. Macos action completes but Windows and Linux actions hang

Expected behavior Windows and Linux actions should either get scheduled or if there is buffered error messages they should get flushed so I can debug an error on my end.

Runner Version and Platform

Version of your runner?

ubuntu-latest and windows-latest images are both hanging in hosted Github Actions.

What’s not working?

https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation/pull/58/checks?check_run_id=3792572454 image

And https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation/pull/58/checks?check_run_id=3792572377 image

Job Log Output

2021-10-04T14:57:01.1051034Z Found online and idle hosted runner in the current repository's organization account that matches the required labels: 'ubuntu-latest'
2021-10-04T14:57:01.1679453Z Waiting for a Hosted runner in the 'organization' to pick this job...
2021-10-04T14:57:01.4109605Z Job is waiting for a hosted runner to come online.
2021-10-04T14:57:04.8329603Z Job is about to start running on the hosted runner: GitHub Actions 4 (hosted)

and

2021-10-04T14:57:01.1104527Z Found online and idle hosted runner in the current repository's organization account that matches the required labels: 'windows-latest'
2021-10-04T14:57:01.2044987Z Waiting for a Hosted runner in the 'organization' to pick this job...
2021-10-04T14:57:01.6469185Z Job is waiting for a hosted runner to come online.
2021-10-04T14:57:05.5672016Z Job is about to start running on the hosted runner: GitHub Actions 6 (hosted)

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Reactions:4
  • Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

github_iconTop GitHub Comments

3reactions
eatonphilcommented, Jul 20, 2022
2reactions
eatonphilcommented, Dec 17, 2021

Since this isn’t a bug in the runner application, but was a service incident, I’m going to close this.

Ok! Sounds good. Yes I haven’t seen it recently.

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