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self hosted runner is not accepting jobs from queue.

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Mar 14, 20260 views
Confidence Score81%
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Problem

Describe the bug Self hosted idle runner is not consuming queued jobs (runner version 263, release version). To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: 1. Assume you have a runner in the state offline (self-hosted) 2. New action workflow is triggered 3. Create a new runner (config and run). We scale them automatically 4. New runner is not consuming the queued jobs. This was working perfectly for a few months, but got recently broeken. 5. It got a bit more strange, trigger a new workflow. The runner wil see this jobs, start an upgrade to the prereleas, see #581 . And jobs stars, Queued jobs remains stucks today (2020-07-15 between 12 and 18 CET). Now around 20:30 CET the queued jobs are consumed as well. But all still strange since it is the event of the second trigger that cause the update of a non released version. Should 267 not be released? Expected behavior Runner in the idle status should consume jobs (labels are matching). Runner Version and Platform GitHub cloud + runner version 263 OS of the machine running the runner? OSX/Windows/Linux/... What's not working? No error message, see behaviror above. Job Log Output If applicable, include the relevant part of the job / step log output here. All sensitive information should already be masked out, but please double-check before pasting here. Runner and Worker's Diagnostic Logs n/a reference: our setup is available here: https://github.com/philips-labs/terraform-aws-github-runner

Error Output

error message, see behaviror above.

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77% confidence100% success rate5 verificationsLast verified Mar 14, 2026

Solution: self hosted runner is not accepting jobs from queue.

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Having this issue right now. I have idle workers "listening for jobs" and nothing happens. Workflows are not started. I tried cancelling and restarting but it doesn't seem to help. I started to see this today. Anyone else experiencing this at the moment?

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    Having this issue right now. I have idle workers "listening for jobs" and nothin

    Having this issue right now. I have idle workers "listening for jobs" and nothing happens. Workflows are not started. I tried cancelling and restarting but it doesn't seem to help. I started to see this today. Anyone else experiencing this at the moment?

Validation

Resolved in actions/runner GitHub issue #592. Community reactions: 8 upvotes.

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Last verified Mar 14, 2026

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