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Action exceeding the maximum execution time of 360 minutes

See original GitHub issue

This has been happening only for the last couple of hours.

The job fails with the error The job running on runner GitHub Actions 3 has exceeded the maximum execution time of 360 minutes. Further investigation shows that the job was in fact running for 6 hours.

Copy of action log

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Metrics                                                  │  
(node:11) ExperimentalWarning: stream/web is an experimental feature. This feature could change at any time
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
Setup                                                    │ complete
Version                                                  │ 3.17.0-beta
Using prebuilt image                                     │ true
Debug mode                                               │ false
Debug flags                                              │ (none)
GitHub token                                             │ (provided)
Github GraphQL API                                       │ ok
Github REST API                                          │ ok
Token validity                                           │ seems ok
GitHub account                                           │ matievisthekat
Current repository                                       │ matievisthekat/matievisthekat
Committer token                                          │ (provided)
Committer branch                                         │ master
Committer head branch                                    │ master
Committer REST API                                       │ ok
Committer account                                        │ (github-actions)
Committer head branch status                             │ ok
Previous render sha                                      │ d977b5ffc80dc570c06aee01718fb1cb7bb6166d
SVG output                                               │ recent-metrics.svg
SVG optimization                                         │ css, xml
SVG verification after generation                        │ false
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Templates                                                │  
Community templates                                      │ (none)
Template used                                            │ classic
Query additional params                                  │ {}
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Core                                                     │  
Rendered markdown output path                            │ TEMPLATE.md
Extra CSS                                                │ 
Timezone used                                            │ Africa/Johannesburg
Configure content order                                  │ (none)
Use twemojis instead of emojis                           │ false
Use GitHub custom emojis                                 │ true
Render display width                                     │ regular
SVG CSS animations                                       │ true
Encode images links into base64 data                     │ true
Image padding                                            │ 0, 0
Output image format                                      │ auto
Experimental features                                    │ (none)
Plugin errors                                            │ (displayed in generated image)
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Base content                                             │  
Number of repositories to use                            │ 100
Number of repositories to load at once by queries        │ 100
Include forks in metrics                                 │ false
Repositories affiliations                                │ owner
Default repositories to skip                             │ (none)
List of surnames or email addresses you use when authoring commits │ .user.login
Base sections                                            │ (none)
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Coding habits                                            │  
Number of events to use                                  │ 1000
Maximum event age                                        │ 30
Display coding habits collected facts based on recent activity │ false
Display coding habits charts based on recent activity    │ true
Trim unused hours on daily chart                         │ false
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Music plugin                                             │  
Music provider                                           │ spotify
Music provider personal token                            │ (provided)
Plugin mode                                              │ recent
Embed playlist url                                       │ 
Maximum number of tracks to display                      │ 5
Display when the track was played                        │ true
Time period for top mode                                 │ short
Whether to show tracks or artists in top mode            │ tracks
Music provider username                                  │ .user.login
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Recently starred repositories                            │  
Maximum number of stars to display                       │ 4
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
WakaTime plugin                                          │  
WakaTime API token                                       │ (provided)
WakaTime time range                                      │ 7
Sections to display                                      │ time, projects, editors, os
Maximum number of entries to display per graph           │ 5
Address where to reach your Wakatime instance            │ wakatime.com
Your Wakatime user on the selfhosted Wakapi instance     │ current
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Rendering                                                │  
Error: The operation was canceled.

and here is a copy of my workflow config

view file

name: Recent Metrics
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule: 
    - cron: "0 * * * *"
jobs:
  github-metrics:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: lowlighter/metrics@master
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.METRICS_TOKEN }}
          committer_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          base: ""
          config_timezone: Africa/Johannesburg
          config_padding: 0, 0
          filename: recent-metrics.svg
          
          plugin_habits: yes
          plugin_habits_from: 1000
          plugin_habits_days: 30
          plugin_habits_facts: no
          plugin_habits_charts: yes
          
          plugin_wakatime: yes
          plugin_wakatime_token: ${{ secrets.WAKATIME_TOKEN }}
          plugin_wakatime_days: 7
          plugin_wakatime_sections: time, projects, editors, os
          
          plugin_stars: yes
          plugin_stars_limit: 4
          
          plugin_music: yes
          plugin_music_provider: spotify
          plugin_music_mode: recent
          plugin_music_limit: 5
          plugin_music_played_at: yes
          plugin_music_token: "${{ secrets.SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID }}, ${{ secrets.SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET }}, ${{ secrets.SPOTIFY_REFRESH_TOKEN }}"

The action seems to be running for 6 hours. Is it maybe getting stuck in some kind of infinite loop? A number of the runs for this workflow have had this error. I will link to them below:

(From oldest to newest)