On some PRs, there is no option to rerun a failed job even though I have permissions

[reggie-k]

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Bug

💬 Feature/Topic Area

ARC (Actions Runner Controller)

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In this PR, even though I have write access to the repo, I don't have the rerun jobs button:
https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/actions/runs/32979031639/job/98210781125?pr=29385
For comparison, in this PR in the same repo I do have the button:
https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/actions/runs/32981539190/job/98225952744?pr=29405

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[reggie-k]

Without a rerun button:

With a rerun button:

[tomm1990]

this isn’t a permissions bug on your account. the two runs aren’t the same kind of Actions run.

the one without re-run:

• https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/actions/runs/32979031639
• event: dynamic
• name Code Quality: PR #29385
• head ref refs/pull/29385/head

the one with re-run:

• https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/actions/runs/32981539190
• event: pull_request
• normal repo workflow (Integration tests)

dynamic here is GitHub’s Code Quality / code-scanning style run, not a workflow file under .github/workflows that you own. those don’t get the same Re-run jobs control as a failed pull_request / push workflow - write access doesn’t change that.

what to do instead for the Code Quality failure

• open the CodeQL / Code Quality UI for that PR and trigger analyze / re-run from there (product surface, not Actions “Re-run jobs”)
• or push an empty commit / close-reopen the PR so a new dynamic run is created
• for the Autobuild failure itself, fix/repro on a normal pull_request CodeQL workflow if the repo still has one - that will show Re-run jobs

so: button missing cos it’s a dynamic Code Quality run, not cos you’re missing write on argo-cd.