forced termination of actions

[gergimentr]

Good afternoon.
why does your action work no more than 45 minutes, then breaks?
even if you are using a timeout.

[jessehui]

Forced termination here too. About 1 hour. Previously, it can run for 6 hours.

[phil-blain]

Same thing here, last time I used it I had the full 6 hours, now after about 45-60 minutes it stops.

[dscho]

The most likely reason is that there are issues on tmate.io's side. That's unfortunately outside our control.

[gergimentr]

sorry, dropped out of the discussion.
interesting speculation about current issues on the tmate side, this does happen sometimes.
However, I'm interested in the hourly shutdown of the action side from the github.
tmate started up, works without problems and stops working after an hour of actions.
what's with the tmate?

[1-1-2]

I've got the logs below

2022-07-15T07:17:25.9139944Z Created new session successfully
2022-07-15T07:17:26.6543414Z Entering main loop
...
2022-07-15T08:18:45.2955883Z ##[error]The runner has received a shutdown signal. This can happen when the runner service is stopped, or a manually started runner is canceled.
2022-07-15T08:18:45.3576461Z Cleaning up orphan processes

By any chance, there is a limitation to use tmate in actions?

[fawazahmed0]

I installed webssh in GitHub CI and then exposed it to web using cloudflare tunnel (free and reliable alternative to ngrok).
Here is the code(cloudflare link will be printed in logs):

wget -O cloudflared https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-linux-amd64
chmod 777 cloudflared
pip install webssh
wssh &
./cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:8888 &
echo "Username@hostname" $(whoami)@$(hostname)

After you have connected through webssh browser terminal, execute the below line, to avoid disconnection

while true; do echo ''; sleep 60; done &

Update: action-upterm doesn't have termination issue, it uses upterm instead of tmate

[fawazahmed0]

Hi everyone, I have made a new Github action package for debugging.
It doesn't have forced termination issue.
Here is the link:
https://github.com/fawazahmed0/action-debug

[M-Kepler]

Hi everyone, I have made a new Github action package for debugging. It doesn't have forced termination issue. Here is the link: https://github.com/fawazahmed0/action-debug

Nice， thank you

and up-term will disconnect too！