Inscrutable "Actions workflow run is stale" error

I’m getting a lot of sporadic failures in reporting, possibly due to the number of parallel builds that are attempting to submit coverage reports.

The way my project is configured is to build the core tests, which takes about four minutes, then builds over twenty other integration tests, each of which takes five or more minutes. It seems as though we may be dancing right on the edge of some sort of limit, possibly due to my naive understanding of the after_n_builds option.

Unfortunately, Googling anything about {'detail': ErrorDetail(string='Actions workflow run is stale', code='not_found')} turns up nothing, so hopefully after now, at least people will find this issue.

Would you kindly explain how to either increase the timeout for when codecov is waiting for coverage segments, or if this is not the case, instruct on how to resolve this error?

Thank you for your assistance, as well as for an excellent product!

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==> Uploading reports
    url: https://codecov.io
    query: branch=update%2Fjackson-core-2.12.1&commit=5e16535e81483a6a07612ba10cfe32c328469103&build=598338763&build_url=http%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ftwilio%2Fguardrail%2Factions%2Fruns%2F598338763&name=&tag=&slug=twilio%2Fguardrail&service=github-actions&flags=&pr=927&job=CI&cmd_args=n,F,Q,Z,f
->  Pinging Codecov
https://codecov.io/upload/v4?package=github-action-20210129-7c25fce&token=secret&branch=update%2Fjackson-core-2.12.1&commit=5e16535e81483a6a07612ba10cfe32c328469103&build=598338763&build_url=http%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ftwilio%2Fguardrail%2Factions%2Fruns%2F598338763&name=&tag=&slug=twilio%2Fguardrail&service=github-actions&flags=&pr=927&job=CI&cmd_args=n,F,Q,Z,f
{'detail': ErrorDetail(string='Actions workflow run is stale', code='not_found')}
404
==> Uploading to Codecov
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100  182k  100    81  100  182k    400   904k --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  904k
    {'detail': ErrorDetail(string='Actions workflow run is stale', code='not_found')}
Error: Codecov failed with the following error: The process '/usr/bin/bash' failed with exit code 1

[thomasrockhu]

@laurynas-biveinis I’m looking into making a patch for this. We should hopefully have that particular edge case fixed this week.

[ChristophWurst]

I was having this problem and I found adding the Codecov token as a GitHub Actions secret helped.

Unfortunately for any github organization with a wider community this imposes a potential leakage of an access token, hence we at Nextcloud dropped our codecov tokens from the action because the readme says those are not required for public repositories.

Our current mitigation is to report coverage only for a few CI runs, though that can potentially lower the reported coverage as some paths are only triggered by certain tests in our matrix.