GitHub Pages deployment times out at syncing_files; retry remains queued

[BernDonn]

🏷️ Discussion Type

Bug

💬 Feature/Topic Area

Workflow Deployment

Discussion Details

GitHub Pages for BernDonn/zzpagent-website is not publishing the latest version. Build and artifact upload succeed, but deployment stalls at syncing_files and fails after 600 seconds with: Timeout reached, aborting! The live site still serves the previous version.

Public run: https://github.com/BernDonn/zzpagent-website/actions/runs/42665018270
Deploy job: https://github.com/BernDonn/zzpagent-website/actions/runs/42665018270/job/129327202244

A requested retry remained queued without new jobs at the last inspection. The latest Pages build still reports errored / Page build failed.

Similar report: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/212554 (shared cause not confirmed).

Could GitHub staff investigate the stalled deployment/retry and advise how to safely publish the existing commit?

Resubmitted using the web template as requested by the automated closure of https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/212555.

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[homefriendmassage-boop]

I’m seeing a similar issue. My GitHub Pages deployment failed with
“Internal server error”. The retry is stuck in Queued, and GitHub
won’t let me cancel it.

Run: https://github.com/homefriendmassage-boop/-shrimp/actions/runs/42673501256
Correlation ID: c305838d-cda4-4cb1-8780-41d398929879