pkgcheck-action hangs at `pkgcheck::render_md2html()` ('Running Pkgcheck...' step)

[rmgpanw]

Hi, I am trying to run the pkgcheck-action for my package trud however it strangely keeps hanging at the 'Running Pkgcheck...' step, specifically (I think) when running pkgcheck::render_md2html() here:

pkgcheck-action/R/check.R

Line 50 in 9ca7675

render_md2html(md, FALSE) %>%

GH Actions logs for

• trud: https://github.com/rmgpanw/trud/actions/runs/14695870802/job/41237399651
• gtexr (another package of mine where pkgcheck-action works perfectly): https://github.com/ropensci/gtexr/actions/runs/14694702037/job/41234766786

I am able to run pkgcheck::pkgcheck(), pkgcheck::checks_to_markdown() and pkgcheck::render_md2html() locally for trud without any problem (and no pkgcheck issues), so am feeling stuck as to why it hangs with GH Actions?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

[mpadge]

Thanks for raising this issue @rmgpanw. I have noted that for quite some time now, as it also affects one of the packages here. Both your logs and those here hang on a pandoc command, so I'm not even sure where to start looking, since I can't reproduce any of that locally, but I'll have a look.

[mpadge]

Only real possibility I can discern is jgm/pandoc#1735, which suggests that mismatched brackets may cause the hanging. These could also be introduced by ansi codes from {cli}.

[rmgpanw]

Just a quick update to say that the pkgcheck-action completed successfully after I made an adjustment that now lowers the code coverage below 100% (see rmgpanw/trud#3 and https://github.com/rmgpanw/trud/actions/runs/14924645045).

Some of the tests require an API key, which I have saved as a GitHub secret for my other workflows but have now disabled for pkgcheck by tweaking the pkgcheck.yaml and using skip_if() for tests that require the key (e.g. see here)

[ScottClaessens]

Just adding to this - I am also experiencing this bug with my coevolve package. The pkg-check action hangs on the pandoc command.

Package: https://github.com/ScottClaessens/coevolve
Action logs: https://github.com/ScottClaessens/coevolve/actions/runs/15828604027/job/44615251427

[mpadge]

Thanks @ScottClaessens, unfortunately I'm none the wiser here since last comment. We also have a current package that starting doing th 6-hour-timeout-fail on every run. I can trace those logs back to the commit which started that, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with the attempted pandoc conversion that hangs, and so must be a mere coincidence. I still can do nothing more than suspect jgm/pandoc#1735.

I nevertheless note that you seem to have since removed your pkgcheck-action, but it is important to note that the action includes these lines:

# This will cancel running jobs once a new run is triggered
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

That means that subsequent commits which trigger new jobs will cancel currently-running ones. Yours seems to have been stopped at only 41 minutes, so wasn't a time-out at 6 hours, suggesting an override as the likely cause there.

[ScottClaessens]

Thanks @mpadge! Yes, I cancelled the run myself at 41 mins after seeing this issue, suspecting the same thing was happening. I will ensure these lines are included in future attempts.

[mpadge]

Just to clarify: They are in the default configuration of https://github.com/ropensci-review-tools/pkgcheck-action anyway. But if you cancelled yourself, then I guess it would likely have just hung there. Hopefully we'll be able to get to the bottom of this at some stage ...