Installer freezes in windows-2022 GitHub Action

[Jon Turney]

On 18/10/2024 21:58, Michele Locati via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> In a GitHub Action running on windows-2022 [1], I have a couple of
> steps like this:
> 
[...]
> 
> The problem is that sometimes (but not always) the second step gets
> stuck: absolutely nothing is printed (even if the --verbose option is
> specified) and GitHub aborts the execution after a few hours.
> 
> Has anyone encountered this problem before? What could be the cause?
> Is there a solution?

No idea, sorry.

You might like to try the semi-official action [1], which does something 
very similar and seems to be working, or perhaps look at what that does 
differently to see if that gives you any clues?

[1] https://github.com/cygwin/cygwin-install-action