Intermittent Deploy Failures starting 2026-01-13

Hi,

Today, we started having some of our deployments failing intermittently. On the repo we're having an issue with, it's failed 3 out of 4 attempts across 3 commits. Here's a sample log from the run:

Run actions/deploy-pages@v4
  with:
    token: ***
    timeout: 600000
    error_count: 10
    reporting_interval: 5000
    artifact_name: github-pages
    preview: false
  env:
    SSH_AUTH_SOCK: /tmp/ssh-XXXXXXlr939O/agent.152
    SSH_AGENT_PID: 153
    CCACHE_CONFIGPATH: ***
    GITHUB_PAGES: true
/usr/bin/docker exec  f83688d7e39b783f110923ec080064169611361426556e27a9ce7e0a22a1967d sh -c "cat /etc/*release | grep ^ID"
Fetching artifact metadata for "github-pages" in this workflow run
Found 1 artifact(s)
Creating Pages deployment with payload:
{
	"artifact_id": 5121676689,
	"pages_build_version": "eeefd0d40e97ca0fa468461059ce320e3b8318b4",
	"oidc_token": "***"
}
Created deployment for eeefd0d40e97ca0fa468461059ce320e3b8318b4, ID: eeefd0d40e97ca0fa468461059ce320e3b8318b4
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: syncing_files
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: syncing_files
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: syncing_files
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: syncing_files
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: syncing_files
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: syncing_files
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: syncing_files
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: syncing_files
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: syncing_files
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: syncing_files
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: syncing_files
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: syncing_files
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: syncing_files
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: syncing_files
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: syncing_files
Getting Pages deployment status...
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Getting Pages deployment status...
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Getting Pages deployment status...
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Getting Pages deployment status...
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Error: Deployment failed, try again later.

A previous attempt failed with:

Run actions/deploy-pages@v4
/usr/bin/docker exec  a4c74ee026aaa371e902fbfebcfed4e9eda6696477de5aa846cbcced47f44d75 sh -c "cat /etc/*release | grep ^ID"
Fetching artifact metadata for "github-pages" in this workflow run
Found 2 artifact(s)
Creating Pages deployment with payload:
{
	"artifact_id": 5116650337,
	"pages_build_version": "ccb4d8bf4031032e165c1df0e187a4f4033fffd5",
	"oidc_token": "***"
}
Created deployment for ccb4d8bf4031032e165c1df0e187a4f4033fffd5, ID: ccb4d8bf4031032e165c1df0e187a4f4033fffd5
Getting Pages deployment status...
Current status: deployment_queued
Getting Pages deployment status...
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Error: Timeout reached, aborting!
Error: Timeout reached, aborting!
Canceling Pages deployment...
Canceled deployment with ID ccb4d8bf4031032e165c1df0e187a4f4033fffd5

Any ideas what might be going on? We haven't really changed anything on our side...

Thanks!

Start by examining the reported actions/deploy-pages@v4 workflow logs, especially the transitions between deployment_queued and syncing_files and the timeout behavior. Compare repeated runs across commits and determine what change or condition is needed for Pages deployments to complete reliably.