Fatal: easly EOF RPC failed

[martiix-admin]

Hi, on a regular basis we face issues with checking out code, and it seems to be happening more frequently in the past couple of weeks.

We use the checkout action like this:

              uses: actions/checkout@v4
              with:
                  lfs: false
                  token: ${{ secrets.CHECKOUT_BOT_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
                  fetch-depth: 0

Under fetching the repository, this is the log output:

Fetching the repository
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --prune --no-recurse-submodules --unshallow origin +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*
  Error: error: RPC failed; curl 92 HTTP/2 stream 0 was not closed cleanly: CANCEL (err 8)
  Error: error: 2000 bytes of body are still expected
  fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
  Error: fatal: early EOF
  Error: fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
  The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128
  Waiting 14 seconds before trying again
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --prune --no-recurse-submodules --unshallow origin +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*
  Error: error: RPC failed; curl 92 HTTP/2 stream 0 was not closed cleanly: CANCEL (err 8)
  Error: error: 4209 bytes of body are still expected
  fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
  Error: fatal: early EOF
  Error: fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
  The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128
  Waiting 13 seconds before trying again
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --prune --no-recurse-submodules --unshallow origin +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*
  Error: error: RPC failed; curl 92 HTTP/2 stream 0 was not closed cleanly: CANCEL (err 8)
  Error: error: 5193 bytes of body are still expected
  fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
  Error: fatal: early EOF
  Error: fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
  Error: The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128

Any clue why this might be happning? We have seen this 4 times in master only in the last 24 hours, so it's becoming annoying.

[Martiix]

Appernanlty this error happens on weak / low cpu and ram self-hosted agents. Our solution is to run these jobs elsewhere, if anyone stumbles upon this post later on.