blacksmith - Github `actions/checkout` is failing with `fatal: protocol error: bad pack header` when trying to pull the repository – Incident details

All systems operational

Github `actions/checkout` is failing with `fatal: protocol error: bad pack header` when trying to pull the repository

Resolved
Degraded performance
Started about 2 years agoLasted about 1 hour

Affected

Blacksmith Managed Runners

Github → Actions

Operational from 3:07 PM to 4:04 PM

Updates
  • Resolved
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    Resolved

    This incident has been resolved by GitHub, operations should be back to normal.

  • Identified
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    Identified

    GitHub has opened an incident, we will continue monitoring the status of this - https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/q3xqwmcxzkqq

  • Investigating
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    Investigating

    Both GitHub hosted runners and Blacksmith hosted runners are seeing an error when trying to checkout the repository in a GitHub workflow. This is indicative of an outage or bad deploy on GitHub's end, we are monitoring the situation.