Actions - Cron schedule not working for all repos

[Thulium-Drake]

Description

I have configured a lot of repos in my private instance to run in 2 cases:

• At push on specified branches, this works as a charm
• '@Weekly'

I had these changes in place before it was supported in Gitea (it was in the spec and I found out later that it was not yet supported). However, now it is supported, but the Actions are not triggered for all repos I have it configured for.

My config, which is the same for all repos:

---
name: Test & publish
run-name: Checking role and publish on Ansible Galaxy
on:  # yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
  schedule:
    - cron: '@weekly'
  push:
    branches:
      - 'master'
      - 'main'

Gitea Version

1.21.0 built with GNU Make 4.3, go1.21.4 : bindata, sqlite, sqlite_unlock_notify

Can you reproduce the bug on the Gitea demo site?

No

Log Gist

No response

Screenshots

It is working for some:

But not for others:

Git Version

2.39.2-1.1

Operating System

Debian 12

How are you running Gitea?

I have installed it using the Ansible Role made by @DO1JLR https://github.com/roles-ansible/ansible_role_gitea

It's running via systemd using the binary that came from Github.

Database

MySQL/MariaDB

[lunny]

Whether all the workflow are in the default branch of the repository?

[Thulium-Drake]

Hi lunny,

Thanks for the reply! Yes, all repos have the same setup. I have added some screenshots to show you how it's set up.

The working repo:

The non-working repo:

Does this answer your question?

[lunny]

It's wired. I cannot reproduce it.

[IsaacWG]

I seem to also be having this issue. The action runs just fine on push, but won't run on the cron schedule. It seems the action_schedule and action_schedule_spec MySQL database tables remain empty and no records are being added. Of course I only just started trying out Gitea actions, so I only have one repo configured with an action.

My action YAML file begins with the following:

name: Docker Build
run-name: Build and publish Docker container images

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 * * * *'
  push:
    branches:
      - 'master'

My Gitea version is 1.21.4 running under Docker, using the latest gitea/gitea:1 image.

Gitea version 1.21.4 built with GNU Make 4.4.1, go1.21.6 : bindata, timetzdata, sqlite, sqlite_unlock_notify

[maltsev-gorskij]

Got the same issue. After updating to 1.21.4 my renovate bot scheduled task stopped working. Tried to disable and enable schedule again, but got no luck.

Task config

name: renovate

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 1 * * *"

  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  renovate:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container: ghcr.io/renovatebot/renovate:37.140.10
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: renovate
        env:
          RENOVATE_CONFIG_FILE: "${{ gitea.workspace }}/config.js"
          LOG_LEVEL: "debug"
          RENOVATE_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RENOVATE_TOKEN }}
          GITHUB_COM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}

[IsaacWG]

Got the same issue. After updating to 1.21.4 my renovate bot scheduled task stopped working. Tried to disable and enable schedule again, but got no luck.

@maltsev-gorskij Do you know what version were you on previously where it worked? I believe the cron schedule support was added on release 1.21.0 with pull #26655

I just tested with Gitea versions 1.21.0, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, and ended on 1.21.4, each time pushing a new commit. I had a cron schedule configured to run every 5 minutes. In every version I ran into the same issue with the schedule not running and no records being added to the action_schedule and action_schedule_spec database tables.

[IsaacWG]

A possibly useful trace log:

...actions/workflows.go:125:DetectWorkflows() [T] detect workflow "docker-build.yaml" for event &jobparser.Event{Name:"schedule", acts:map[string][]string(nil), schedules:[]map[string]string{map[string]string{"cron":"*/5 * * * *"}}} matching "push"
...actions/workflows.go:125:DetectWorkflows() [T] detect workflow "docker-build.yaml" for event &jobparser.Event{Name:"push", acts:map[string][]string{"branches":[]string{"master"}}, schedules:[]map[string]string(nil)} matching "push"
...dules/git/command.go:290:Run() [D] git.Command.RunDir(/data/git/repositories/isaac/gitea-action-testing.git): /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 -c credential.helper= -c filter.lfs.required= -c filter.lfs.smudge= -c filter.lfs.clean= name-rev --exclude refs/tags/* --name-only --no-undefined 27254cd39d2fa54c7ecfdcdfd59a22d24da45c55
...s/process/manager.go:188:Add() [T] Start 65ab1628-13: git(dir:/data/git/repositories/isaac/gitea-action-testing.git): /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 -c credential.helper= -c filter.lfs.required= -c filter.lfs.smudge= -c filter.lfs.clean= name-rev --exclude refs/tags/* --name-only --no-undefined 27254cd39d2fa54c7ecfdcdfd59a22d24da45c55 (normal)
...s/process/manager.go:231:remove() [T] Done 65ab1628-13: git(dir:/data/git/repositories/isaac/gitea-action-testing.git): /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 -c credential.helper= -c filter.lfs.required= -c filter.lfs.smudge= -c filter.lfs.clean= name-rev --exclude refs/tags/* --name-only --no-undefined 27254cd39d2fa54c7ecfdcdfd59a22d24da45c55
...s/notifier_helper.go:405:handleSchedules() [T] repo /data/git/repositories/isaac/gitea-action-testing.git with commit 27254cd39d2fa54c7ecfdcdfd59a22d24da45c55 couldn't find schedules

[lippoliv]

I'm a newbie to gitea, using GitLab for 10+ years now. Evaluating if it's time to switch. Ran into this issue as well (yes I enabled actions in config ;) ).

Runnin with docker compose on a Synology NAS (DS918+, DSM 7.1.1-42962 Update 6).
Gitea-Version: 1.21.4 built with GNU Make 4.4.1, go1.21.6 : bindata, timetzdata, sqlite, sqlite_unlock_notify

1. New repo
2. simple workflow

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '* * * * *'

jobs:
  echo:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: say hi
        shell: bash
        run: echo hi

Expected
Every minute it says hi

Actual
No actions are scheduled / executed at all.

[jameshurst]

I just tested with Gitea versions 1.21.0, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, and ended on 1.21.4, each time pushing a new commit. I had a cron schedule configured to run every 5 minutes. In every version I ran into the same issue with the schedule not running and no records being added to the action_schedule and action_schedule_spec database tables.

I was able to get scheduled actions running again after downgrading to 1.21.3, but only after pushing a commit that modified the schedule. I have not tested whether the scheduled actions run in 1.21.4 after pushing a commit that modifies the schedule.

[maltsev-gorskij]

Got the same issue. After updating to 1.21.4 my renovate bot scheduled task stopped working. Tried to disable and enable schedule again, but got no luck.

@maltsev-gorskij Do you know what version were you on previously where it worked? I believe the cron schedule support was added on release 1.21.0 with pull #26655

I just tested with Gitea versions 1.21.0, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, and ended on 1.21.4, each time pushing a new commit. I had a cron schedule configured to run every 5 minutes. In every version I ran into the same issue with the schedule not running and no records being added to the action_schedule and action_schedule_spec database tables.

Previously it was working on 1.21.3 version. And it worked just fine. After update, scheduling stopped working.

[IsaacWG]

@maltsev-gorskij and @jameshurst:
I can confirm that by reverting back to 1.21.3 and changing the cron schedule I do get it working again on my Gitea instance and repo.

Looks like @lunny has found the cause of the problem. Thanks Lunny!