Simple GitHub Actions workflow doesn't start

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I just wanted to test GitHub's new "GitHub Actions" feature. So I created a .github folder in my repository and a workflows folder within that and added a simple test-workflow.yml to that folder:

name: Hello World

#on:
#  schedule:
#    #- cron:  '0 */12 * * *'
#    - cron:  '* * * * *'

on: [push]

jobs:
  one:
    name: Hello
    runs-on: alpine-latest
    steps:
      - run: echo "hello world"

But it doesn't appear to ever start. It just says "Starting your workflow run..." forever.

I'm wondering what I might be doing wrong.

rmunn · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-08 11:34:53Z

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Your job is configured to run in an alpine-latest environment, but GitHib doesn't provide alpine-latest as one of their workflow environments. Your choices are ubuntu-latest, macOS-latest, windows-latest, or a specific version of one of those three OSes. Change runs-on: alpine-latest to runs-on: ubuntu-latest and your workflow should start.

answered Sep 8, 2019 at 11:34

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woter324 · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-17 16:54:00Z

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Although this doesn't answer the specific OP question, search engines bring us here, looking for the answer to why one's pipeline is stuck on "Starting your workflow run..."

If you are running your runner in a container, the chances are, Github has released a new version of the runner and your container is trying to update itself. You can check the below URL to see when Github released the latest version: https://github.com/actions/runner/releases

There are a lot of requests for Github to provide a feature to stop automatic updates, but to date (17/11/2020) they refuse to do so, claiming they need the auto-update functionality to support new features.

The suggested workaround is to develop a build pipeline for your container that builds automatically when they push a new release.

edited Nov 17, 2020 at 16:54

answered Nov 17, 2020 at 10:18

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