runner: Runners fail to set up job with tar -xzf error

Describe the bug actions/checkout is failing with

Can't use 'tar -xzf' extract archive file: /home/runner/work/_actions/_temp_56b51ce2-efe8-41fe-93a9-50183dbbd11d/18943cb2-ddeb-4981-8a5d-f1684ebdf51d.tar.gz. return code: 2.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. run action with ‘actions/checkout@v3’

Expected behavior actions should be complete without any errors

Runner Version and Platform

Current runner version: ‘2.308.0’ Operating System Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Runner Image Image: ubuntu-22.04 Version: 20230821.1.0 Included Software: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/ubuntu22/20230821.1/images/linux/Ubuntu2204-Readme.md Image Release: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/releases/tag/ubuntu22%2F20230821.1 Runner Image Provisioner 2.0.264.1

What’s not working?

setup up job

Job Log Output

Download action repository ‘actions/checkout@v3’ (SHA:f43a0e5ff2bd294095638e18286ca9a3d1956744) Error: Can’t use ‘tar -xzf’ extract archive file: /home/runner/work/_actions/_temp_56b51ce2-efe8-41fe-93a9-50183dbbd11d/18943cb2-ddeb-4981-8a5d-f1684ebdf51d.tar.gz. return code: 2.

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 10 months ago
  • Reactions: 30
  • Comments: 22

Most upvoted comments

Experiencing the same issue currently. Seems to be the same as https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1923 So waiting for action from GitHub

Just this second happened again for us

All my actions seem to be working again!

Same on our side also:)

Same here… Thanks for raising the issue!

same on some repositories on our organization

I still have the issue, it seems to appear randomly across my jobs