infinite queuing github actions

[Dankh917]

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Hello guys this is my first time learning and buulding CICD pipelines, im using github actions and having a weird thing happing to me right now :

I made a workflow that has 2 jobs :

`on:
push:
pull_request:

jobs:

backend-tests:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:

  - name: Checkout code
    uses: actions/checkout@v4 


  - name: Set up Python
    uses: actions/setup-python@v5
    with:
      python-version: '3.12'
 
  - name: Install backend dependencies
    run: python -m pip install -r backend/requirements-dev.txt


  - name: Run tests
    run: python -m pytest backend/tests -q

docker-builds:
runs-on: ubunto-latest
steps:

  - name: Checkout code
    uses: actions/checkout@v4
    
  - name: Build backend image  
    run: docker build -t redalert-backend ./backend
  
  - name: Build frontend image
    run: docker build -t redalert-frontend ./frontend`

everytime after I push the commit to github it starts the flow but get stuck on what seems to be infinite queuing on the second job, the docker building one

what funny is I have a second workflow that also uses docker build but it gets assigned workers instantly
why does that happen ?

*note im not paying for actions , using free tier
Thanks

[DevFoxxx]

Hey! The issue is a simple typo in your second job. You wrote runs-on: ubunto-latest instead of ubuntu-latest (with a 'u' at the end).

GitHub is stuck in a loop looking for a runner named 'ubunto' that doesn't exist. Fix that 'o' and it will start instantly! Also, make sure your indentation is correct (YAML is very picky about spaces).

Here is the fixed workflow:

on:
  push:
  pull_request:

jobs:
  backend-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4 

      - name: Set up Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: '3.12'
 
      - name: Install backend dependencies
        run: python -m pip install -r backend/requirements-dev.txt

      - name: Run tests
        run: python -m pytest backend/tests -q

  docker-builds:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest  # Fixed typo here
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
    
      - name: Build backend image  
        run: docker build -t redalert-backend ./backend
  
      - name: Build frontend image
        run: docker build -t redalert-frontend ./frontend

[Dankh917]

Thank you very much , cannot belive such a mistake caught me again! :)