Github actions: macOS not running on Github hosted runner

[m-chirodea]

Description

Hello!

Since 11:00 AM (GMT+3) We are experiencing issues with any macOS image when running on github hosted runners. The action hangs on Waiting for a runner to pick up this job...

Switching to ubuntu works instantly so it seems that only macOS runners are affected.

i'll leave an example workflow that we use for macOS.

`name: Deploy
on:
push:
branches:
- staging
workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
upload_to_appcenter:
runs-on: macos-latest

steps:
  - name: Checkout repository
    uses: actions/checkout@v4
    
  - name: Install the Apple certificate and provisioning profile
    env:
      BUILD_CERTIFICATE_BASE64: ${{ secrets.APPSTORE_BUILD_CERTIFICATE_BASE64 }}
      P12_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.APPSTORE_BUILD_CERTIFICATE_P12_PASSWORD }}
      BUILD_PROVISION_PROFILE_BASE64: ${{ secrets.APPSTORE_BUILD_PROVISION_PROFILE_BASE64 }}
      KEYCHAIN_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.APPSTORE_KEYCHAIN_PASSWORD }}
    run: |
      # create variables
      CERTIFICATE_PATH=$RUNNER_TEMP/build_certificate.p12
      PP_PATH=$RUNNER_TEMP/build_pp.mobileprovision
      KEYCHAIN_PATH=$RUNNER_TEMP/app-signing.keychain-db
      # import certificate and provisioning profile from secrets
      echo -n "$BUILD_CERTIFICATE_BASE64" | base64 --decode -o $CERTIFICATE_PATH
      echo -n "$BUILD_PROVISION_PROFILE_BASE64" | base64 --decode -o $PP_PATH
      # create temporary keychain
      security create-keychain -p "$KEYCHAIN_PASSWORD" $KEYCHAIN_PATH
      security set-keychain-settings -lut 21600 $KEYCHAIN_PATH
      security unlock-keychain -p "$KEYCHAIN_PASSWORD" $KEYCHAIN_PATH
      # import certificate to keychain
      security import $CERTIFICATE_PATH -P "$P12_PASSWORD" -A -t cert -f pkcs12 -k $KEYCHAIN_PATH
      security set-key-partition-list -S apple-tool:,apple: -k "$KEYCHAIN_PASSWORD" $KEYCHAIN_PATH
      security list-keychain -d user -s $KEYCHAIN_PATH
      # apply provisioning profile
      mkdir -p ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles
      cp $PP_PATH ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles
      
  - name: Set up Node.js
    uses: actions/setup-node@v3
    with:
      node-version: 18

  - name: Install dependencies
    run: npm install

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• Ubuntu 24.04
• macOS 11
• macOS 12
• macOS 13
• macOS 13 Arm64
• macOS 14
• macOS 14 Arm64
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Image version and build link

macos-latest

Is it regression?

no

Expected behavior

The workflow run to start

Actual behavior

The workflow run hangs on Waiting for a runner to pick up this job...

Repro steps

1. Take the example provided
2. Create a workflow with it
3. Run the workflow
4. The workflow is stuck on Waiting for a runner to pick up this job...

[erik-bershel]

Hey @m-chirodea!

Tried this:

name: Casual test
on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  test:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        os: [ macos-12, macos-13, macos-14 ]
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
    - name: Print
      run: |
        echo "!"

All green:

Are you sure it is service related?

[erik-bershel]

@m-chirodea please, provide links for the runs in hanging state.

[m-chirodea]

Hi! Thank you for answering. Unfortunately I don't think I can share the links for the hanging run state, I can however provide an image.

And to answer the first question. I'll try with the example that you provided and see if I get any success

[m-chirodea]

As a small update.

Seems to be doing the same.

[erik-bershel]

@m-chirodea please contact GitHub Support. It's not related to the images itself. I'll keep this issue for some time in case it's a massive outage.

[m-chirodea]

Update. last night the pipeline magically worked again. Not sure what the cause was, but no changes to the pipeline were done.

[Andrey1994]

We see the same, no jobs started. It was macos 11 which is removed now, I am switching to 12 in this PR brainflow-dev/brainflow#732 and none of the macos jobs are picked by runners

[robertsLando]

Happening the same for me here: https://github.com/yao-pkg/pkg-fetch/actions/runs/10611372113/job/29410753919

[erik-bershel]

Hey @robertsLando!

There is no YAML label like macos-13.0, please update your workflow.

[robertsLando]

@erik-bershel Oh you are right! I was using macos-11.0 before and I saw this behaviour so I found out it was removed and I bumped to 13 without checking the correct tag, thanks! 🙏🏼