CI Tests Fail But the Same Code Passes Locally
22 posts in the last 30 days, all from GitHub.
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed…”
“I'm researching a small CI diagnosis agent, but I'm first trying to understand how experienced engineers actually debug these failures. Suppose an integration test fails in CI and the logs don't immediately reveal the root cause. What do you normally investigate first? For…”
“Timeout chains, retry storms, stale TTLs, and scheduler surprises outside the happy path.”
Developers are struggling with intermittent test failures in CI/CD pipelines that don't reproduce locally. This creates frustration and wasted time, highlighting a disconnect between development environments and production systems.
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“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev)…”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/39014330135 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/38870727080 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/38703314357 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/38535717156 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. e2e test image build+publish (distcc ng e2e) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/38374977280 (failed: publish).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/38236608153 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/38129705723 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/38041967254 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/37916499652 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/37762161011 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/37604606027 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/37294959725 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/37192362314 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/37111517816 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/36990277090 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/36696353977 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/36404154382 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/36308197754 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/35974295695 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/35579457741 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/35430589904 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/35322563777 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/35200001417 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/35073607887 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/34947358749 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/34824109820 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/34746929599 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/34681613510 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/34576616366 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/34452678793 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly health check (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/34326640729 (failed: sanitizer check).”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly build+publish (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/32447990603.”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly build+publish (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/32332815254.”
“A scheduled CI run failed. This standing issue is reused across consecutive failures (every scheduled workflow that feeds it can comment on or close it, not just the one that filed it) and closed automatically on the next successful run. nightly build+publish (current dev) failed in https://github.com/wiki mod/distcc ng/actions/runs/32216685981.”
“I'm researching a small CI diagnosis agent, but I'm first trying to understand how experienced engineers actually debug these failures. Suppose an integration test fails in CI and the logs don't immediately reveal the root cause. What do you normally investigate first? For example: CI logs/stack trace database availability dependent/third-party service availability recent code changes comparison with the previous/last-green build test/DB data previous failure history rerunning the te”
“Timeout chains, retry storms, stale TTLs, and scheduler surprises outside the happy path. submitted by /u/OtherwisePush6424 [link] [comments]”
“Just curious, standard procedure, you have something working locally, you push your code and your CI/CD pipeline fails. Locally everything seems OK and you fail to reproduce the error. What do you actually do at that point? Genuinely curious what people's real routine looks like here — not the textbook answer, the actual "it's 5pm and CI fails" routine 😅 Also wondering: is this even still a big thing in 2026 now that lockfiles and containers have gotten so good, or is it basic”
