Downloading from nodejs.org failing

[paglias]

I'm not sure this is the best repo to report the issue, if it's the wrong place please close this :)

We've been using Github Actions successfully for a few days but starting today all our builds have started to fail at the setup-node step with this error:

4m 57s
##[error]Node run failed with exit code 1
Run actions/setup-node@v1
  with:
    node-version: 12.x
    always-auth: false
/bin/tar xzC /home/runner/work/_temp/83341e1a-c86d-4ddb-9963-ef01607f6e1e -f /home/runner/work/_temp/58fc8365-fe95-474e-ad3c-c5511594abdd

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
/bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
/bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
##[error]The process '/bin/tar' failed with exit code 2
##[error]Node run failed with exit code 1

Attaching a screenshot for more clarity

You can see an example of a failed build here https://github.com/HabitRPG/habitica/pull/11474/checks?check_run_id=271716057.

The code of the workflow is the standard one that can be seen in the official docs

steps:
.....
    - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
      uses: actions/setup-node@v1
      with:
        node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
....

[rashedmyt]

I am also having the same issue

[m4rkmckenna]

Same issue on ubuntu-latest

[chingc]

I'm also having the same problem. One thing I noticed on my CircleCI builds is nvm is failing to download nodejs. The download is so slow that it will timeout, then the installation fails due to an incomplete download.

I'm think it might be a similar problem affecting this action. If it's the same issue, it would be nice if there was some kind of automatic resume so it doesn't keep trying to download from the beginning.

[abatilo]

I'm having the same problem!

[dijam]

I retied couple of times. Waited 10 min, a cup of coffee, tried again and it worked.

[ronaldtse]

Same issue, retried couple of times but still didn't work. https://github.com/metanorma/isodoc/runs/271773491

Seems like an issue from upstream, but could this action use locally installed Node.js?

GHA help says that Node.js 10.16 is installed on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04.

[vibou]

Same here ! What's going on !

[timofeee]

Just experimenting right now with Actions, good to know it's not something I messed up

[nicubarbaros]

Same here! With node 8.15.

[andrew-boyd]

Possibly related to widespread DNS issues from AWS?

[simon300000]

Having problem with node 12 ubuntu-latest

[nicubarbaros]

Suddenly completed after rerunning the same action couple of times

[vibou]

Suddenly completed after rerunning the same action couple of times

Did you run the action with the re-run check or you trigger the workflow with an event ?

[panva]

dtto, only a different error.

[dmail]

I encountered a 500 error once too, maybe unrelated.