GitHub-hosted Actions runners fail before any step starts

[rkyemail01-maker]

🏷️ Discussion Type

Bug

💬 Feature/Topic Area

Actions Runner

Discussion Details

Hello GitHub Community,

I am facing a problem with GitHub Actions in my private repository.

Repository:
https://github.com/rkyemail01-maker/MultiSchoolHomeWorkOS

All GitHub-hosted runners are failing before the first workflow step starts.

I tested:

• ubuntu-latest
• ubuntu-24.04
• ubuntu-slim

Even a minimal workflow with only an echo command fails.

The job shows:

• Status: completed
• Conclusion: failure
• Steps: none
• No runner logs are available

I have checked the repository settings. Actions permissions are set to "Allow all actions and reusable workflows".

I also checked my Actions usage, and it is well below the monthly limit.

There is no self-hosted runner configured. I am intentionally using GitHub-hosted runners.

Because different GitHub-hosted runner types all fail before executing any step, I suspect this may be a runner provisioning or assignment issue rather than a problem with my code.

Could you please help me determine why the GitHub-hosted runner is not starting?

Thank you.

[github-actions[bot]]

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