Request timeout when attempting to download directly from Node

[rwader-swi]

Description:

• When it doesn't find the node in cache, it gives request timeout.
• After removing setup-node action, we've observed the github-scripts@v7 still run, but upload-artifacts action sometimes give issue.
• And sometimes there aren't any logs of setup-node, whether it is caching node or caching the action itself, or attempting to download directly. Hence, we aren't sure how to debug it. Seems like a cache issue to me because it happened after we re-deployed our self-hosted github runners.
• I tried to reproduce the issue by deleting the node cache in /opt/hostedtoolcache from our self-hosted runner, but in that case it passed 🙂
• Its very random. Please if anyone has any idea, or whether it's related to our network issue, then help us ASAP.

Action version:

setup-node@v4

node version: 20

Platform:

• Ubuntu
• macOS
• Windows

Runner type:

• Hosted
• Self-hosted

Tools version:
node-version: 20

Repro steps:

Expected behavior:
A description of what you expected to happen.

Actual behavior:
A description of what is actually happening.

[rwader-swi]

After tracing your code, the issue seems to have occurred at this step itself. Should I try giving a specific version like 20.x.x instead of just 20?

[rwader-swi]

https://nodejs.org/dist/index.json

[aparnajyothi-y]

Hello @rwader-swi, Thank you for creating this issue and we will look into it :)

[alirezaalavi87]

I get timeouts no matter what, can't download anything.

Attempting to download 14...
Request timeout: /repos/actions/node-versions/git/trees/main
Falling back to download directly from Node
::error::Request timeout: /dist/index.json

I can ping nodejs.org from the runner's server and curl https://nodejs.org/dist/index.json returns correct results so I don't think it is a network issue.

workflow.yaml

name: Build and Deploy Test Version

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - dev-branch

jobs:
  build_deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          ref: "dev-branch"
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 14
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: npm install
      - name: Build app
        run: npm run build
      - name: Deploy to server
        uses: appleboy/scp-action@master
        with:
          host: ${{ secrets.SERVER_HOST }}
          username: ${{ secrets.SERVER_USERNAME }}
          key: ${{ secrets.SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}
          source: dist/
          target: /yacht/AppData/Config/Nginx/www/jtimar-lite/dist

[rwader-swi]

I can ping nodejs.org from the runner's server and curl https://nodejs.org/dist/index.json returns correct results so I don't think it is a network issue.

Yeah same in my case

[aparnajyothi-y]

Hello @rwader-swi, @alirezaalavi87 We have tried to reproduce the issue from our local and setup-action is successfully downloading the node-version: 20 or 14 from the node official website without any timeout issue. Please find the screenshots for reference and share the repro link to further investigate the issue as we are unable to reproduce the error from our end.

[aparnajyothi-y]

Hello @rwader-swi, Please share the repro link to investigate the issue further as we are unable to reproduce the issue.

[oftravesset]

Hello, if this can help someone, we had the same issue on azure devops pipeline running the agent self-hosted behind a company proxy. We've solved configuring the environment variable HTTPS_PROXY on the pipeline and solved for us. Maybe is not exactly your case but in case this can help others i post it here.

[alirezaalavi87]

It is working fine now, I can't reproduce it. but like @oftravesset it might have something to do with proxies and internet sanctions.