Random failures on macOS
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Description
Our Apache Commons builds on macos-latest are failing randomly with:
Error: The template is not valid. .github/workflows/maven.yml (Line: 48, Col: 14): hashFiles('**/pom.xml') failed. Fail to hash files under directory '/Users/runner/work/commons-jxpath/commons-jxpath'
For example:
- https://github.com/apache/commons-exec/actions/runs/19612344307/job/56221760722
- https://github.com/apache/commons-jxpath/actions/runs/19634578250/job/56222100736
If you restart, sometimes it works, most of the time, not.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with .github/workflows/maven.yml at line 48 and the linked macOS workflow run logs. Compare failed runs with successful restarts to determine why hashFiles('**/pom.xml') intermittently fails under macos-latest. Done means the failure has a confirmed cause and a validated fix or actionable reproduction is documented.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
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