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[error]The process '/bin/tar' failed with exit code 2

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Run actions/setup-node@master
  with:
    node-version: 13
    always-auth: false
/bin/tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.29
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
/bin/tar xz --warning=no-unknown-keyword -C /home/runner/work/_temp/2036e974-4339-482b-82eb-cdb09db0a167 -f /home/runner/work/_temp/f37bd59e-bdbe-4b4d-a5c2-6e0540d2eca3

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
/bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
/bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
##[error]The process '/bin/tar' failed with exit code 2

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:28
Comments:19

Top GitHub Comments

6reactions

ericsciplecommented, Mar 5, 2020

PR here https://github.com/actions/toolkit/pull/369

6reactions

TrentSchollcommented, Feb 24, 2020

I’ve been getting this error frequently over the past 2 days. Re-running usually fixes it, but we’re seeing a lot of first time builds fail.

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