actions/cache@v4 - Error - sometime running into "hashFiles('**/pom.xml') couldn't finish within 120 seconds"
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Description
Hello team. Would appreciate if you take a look and provide some insights, suggestions or even a fix for the following:
Context: We have about 130 workflows that can run simultaneously. Each workflow might include several parallel jobs.
Issue: time to time we are running into the following issue during the Post Job step of this action (the error does not occur in all jobs, but only in some and randomly):
Post job cleanup.
Error: The template is not valid. ***/cicd-shared-actions/main/.github/actions/run-maven/action.yml (Line: 60, Col: 14): hashFiles('**/pom.xml') couldn't finish within 120 seconds.
Post job cleanup.
main/.github/actions/run-maven/action.yml (Line: 60, Col: 14):
- name: Cache Maven repository
if: runner.os == 'Linux' && inputs.maven-cache == 'true'
uses: actions/cache@v4
with:
enableCrossOsArchive: true
path: ~/.m2/repository
key: ${{ runner.os }}-maven-${{ hashFiles('**/pom.xml') }}
restore-keys: |
${{ runner.os }}-maven-${{ hashFiles('**/pom.xml') }}
What might be a problem here? Thanks in advance
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Research direction
Start with .github/actions/run-maven/action.yml at line 60 and review the actions/cache@v4 configuration, especially the hashFiles('**/pom.xml') expressions. Reproduce or investigate the timeout under the reported concurrent workflow load; done means identifying a supported cause and documenting or validating a fix for the intermittent post-job failure.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- github-actions
- Domain
- ci-cd
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100