Scheduled action never runs

[adam-uk]

Why are you starting this discussion?

Bug

What GitHub Actions topic or product is this about?

Schedule & Cron Jobs

Discussion Details

I have an old-ish free personal account, but new Repos. I've tried Private and Public repos. I can't say they previously worked, because I bever used actions before.

I can trigger either manually. They have never run on schedule. Not once!
They appears in the Workflows sidebar.
Allow all actions and reusable workflows is selected.
I'm the last commiter (the only comitter actually).
As these are new Repos the branch is main/default.
The path is .github/workflows/main.yml

I'm out of ideas.

Here's my test worflow trying the new 1vcpu runner. The private repo used ubuntu-latest

name: Simple Test
on:
schedule:
- cron: '*/9 * * * *' # Runs every 9 minutes
workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
test:
runs-on: ubuntu-slim
steps:
- name: Print Hello
run: echo "Hello! The time is $(date)"

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[Ducanger]

I'm facing the same issue

[michaelscott-1963]

I have the same issue.

[munawwar22HU]

I am also facing a similar issue.

[adam-uk]

@Ducanger @michaelscott-1963 @munawwar22HU Could you elaborate a little please. Have you previously used them and they've stopped working, or you're trying to use them for the first time and they don't work?

[Ducanger]

@Ducanger @michaelscott-1963 @munawwar22HU Could you elaborate a little please. Have you previously used them and they've stopped working, or you're trying to use them for the first time and they don't work?

I’ve been using this for almost a year and it has always worked fine.
But over the last 3 days, it completely stopped working.

One thing I noticed: workflows/actions that were set up and successfully triggered at least once before this issue started are still running normally.
However, newly created workflows don’t get triggered at all (especially scheduled ones)

[thebungeejumper]

I'm having the same problem. I can run it manually but it refuses to auto-trigger. I've tried all the things you did and still no luck. I'm starting to think the auto run feature is broken.

[joelmasters]

having the same issue. Previously working schedules just stopped working

[michaelscott-1963]

My problems started on Friday. I had no scheduled workflows previously; the ones created on Friday and Saturday either don't run or run intermittently. I create a simple workflow to test the scheduling, which only outputs the time and a dump of its payload. However, I have updated its YAML file several times since it was created, but when I look at the dump of the payload, the parameters are the ones in my original version, not the latest version.

[wannli]

See here. actions/runner#4210