Pull request workflow stuck in Queued status for 12 hours

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#1

I have set up a new private repository in my organisation (on a free plan) and tried to commit initial PR workflow. I have submitted the changes through a PR to verify that the workflow is working, but it’s been stuck in Queued state for over 12 hours now.

I tried restarting, but it did nothing. I’m not out of minutes, I barely make a dent in the 2000 minutes budget (70 minutes used this month).

The workflow I was trying to add was just supposed to run npm test:

name: pull-request-checks

on: pull_request

jobs:
  npm-test:
    runs-on: ubuntu latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - uses: actions/setup-node@v2
      with:
        node-version: '17.5'
    - run: npm install
    - run: npm test

I thought that maybe the workflow file was malformed, or one of the steps was wrong, but even in that case I would expect some error message.

When I try searching online, these kinds of problems happen due to outages, but GitHub Status doesn’t mention any problems with Actions.

Not sure what to do about this.

#2

For anyone who stumbles upon this post in the future with the same problem as I had: I suspect the problem was the runs-on: ubuntu latest line, which should instead have a hyphen between “ubuntu” and “latest”. Workflow was probably stuck waiting for a runner with a type that doesn’t exist.

Still, an error message would be nice.