Downloading from nodejs.org failing

I’m not sure this is the best repo to report the issue, if it’s the wrong place please close this 😃

We’ve been using Github Actions successfully for a few days but starting today all our builds have started to fail at the setup-node step with this error:

4m 57s
##[error]Node run failed with exit code 1
Run actions/setup-node@v1
  with:
    node-version: 12.x
    always-auth: false
/bin/tar xzC /home/runner/work/_temp/83341e1a-c86d-4ddb-9963-ef01607f6e1e -f /home/runner/work/_temp/58fc8365-fe95-474e-ad3c-c5511594abdd

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
/bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
/bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
##[error]The process '/bin/tar' failed with exit code 2
##[error]Node run failed with exit code 1

Attaching a screenshot for more clarity

You can see an example of a failed build here https://github.com/HabitRPG/habitica/pull/11474/checks?check_run_id=271716057.

The code of the workflow is the standard one that can be seen in the official docs

steps:
.....
    - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
      uses: actions/setup-node@v1
      with:
        node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
....

[bryanmacfarlane]

UPDATE:

Yes, it’s external and nodejs downloads (not a CDN) is having. This action just downloads from their endpoint.

https://github.com/nodejs/build/issues/1993

We do have a workitem to cache the latest of each major version on our hosted images and this action checks that cache first (resolved the semver you supply against the cache and if not there queries the cloud).

Downside is you may not get absolute latest (image gen’d yesterday, patch released today). but we have a plan for that as well - an option in the action to always query for cloud first.

You could also fall back on failure the only issue with that takes a long time every invocation when an issue like this is happening and it’s a fresh machine every time.

Thoughts?

[ssannidhi-palo]

Facing this issue today on github actions, with ubuntu-18.04 and node 12.14

test: runs-on: ubuntu-18.04 name: Run unit & integration tests steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v1 - name: Setup Node.js uses: actions/setup-node@v1 with: node-version: 12.14