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No progress during "Streaming the extraction of the CodeQL bundle"

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
32/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, typescript
Domain
ci-cd, security

Research direction

The issue names no source files or tests; start by tracing the CodeQL bundle download and the tar -x --zstd extraction step shown in the logs. Reproduce or instrument the extraction path to determine why it can stop progressing for hours, and consider the issue done when the cause and a validated fix or diagnostic are documented.

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Description

Every now and then, we see this error in our CodeQL scans. Both default and "advanced" ones:

  Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
  Found gnu tar version 1.34.
  Did not find CodeQL tools version 2.20.5 in the toolcache.
  Looked for CodeQL bundle codeql-bundle-linux64.tar.zst in github/codeql-action on https://git.xxxxxxx.com but got error HttpError: Not Found.
  Using CodeQL CLI version 2.20.5 sourced from https://github.com/github/codeql-action/releases/download/codeql-bundle-v2.20.5/codeql-bundle-linux64.tar.zst .
  Downloading CodeQL tools from https://github.com/github/codeql-action/releases/download/codeql-bundle-v2.20.5/codeql-bundle-linux64.tar.zst . This may take a while.
  Streaming the extraction of the CodeQL bundle.
  tar -x --zstd --ignore-zeros --warning=no-unknown-keyword --overwrite -f - -C /_work/_temp/82a785df-7d7a-4843-a891-ff0b9e40xxxx
Error: The operation was canceled.

The above message is from the latest time we saw this error (01/03/25), which is post v3.28.10 as the usage of "--ignore-zeros" seems to confirm for the tar command.

The operation being cancelled, is due to a time out after a few hours of apparently, nothing happening.

The error happens from way back and we are unable to see any transcient problem in our compute/network resources that helps us understand.

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