CI Reliability 2025-10-31

Failures in node-test-pull-request/69864 to node-test-pull-request/69963 that failed 2 or more PRs
(Generated with ncu-ci walk pr --stats=true --markdown reports/2025-10-31.md)

Open https://github.com/nodejs/reliability/blob/main/reports/2025-10-31.md to see failure details

Progress

• sequential/test-worker-prof (8)
• addons/stringbytes-external-exceed-max/test-stringbytes-external-exceed-max-by-1-utf8 (7)
• parallel/test-watch-mode-kill-signal-override (6)
• addons/stringbytes-external-exceed-max/test-stringbytes-external-exceed-max (4)
• addons/stringbytes-external-exceed-max/test-stringbytes-external-exceed-max-by-2 (4)
• es-module/test-esm-wasm (4)
• addons/stringbytes-external-exceed-max/test-stringbytes-external-exceed-max-by-1-binary (3)
• addons/stringbytes-external-exceed-max/test-stringbytes-external-exceed-max-by-1-hex (3)
• parallel/test-perf-hooks-timerify (3)
• parallel/test-quic-test-client (3)
• addons/stringbytes-external-exceed-max/test-stringbytes-external-exceed-max-by-1-base64 (2)
• async-hooks/test-emit-before-on-destroyed (2)
• parallel/test-runner-output (2)
• parallel/test-watch-mode-files_watcher (2)
• Cannot run program "/bin/sh" (in directory "/home/iojs/build/workspace/node"): error=0, Failed to exec spawn helper: pid: 938203, exit value: 1 (5)
• Cannot run program "/bin/sh" (in directory "/home/iojs/build/workspace/node"): error=0, Failed to exec spawn helper: pid: 957237, exit value: 1 (4)
• ERROR: Step ‘Publish JUnit test result report’ failed: no workspace for ... (10)

Start with reports/2025-10-31.md and the linked node-test-pull-request jobs to inspect the listed recurring failures. Reproduce the affected tests, including sequential/test-worker-prof, the stringbytes-external-exceed-max tests, and the watch-mode tests, then determine which failures are actionable. Done means the identified CI failures are fixed or reliably diagnosed and the affected jobs pass.