tar error on ubuntu-latest

[richm]

Describe the issue

Here is the workflow file: https://github.com/linux-system-roles/firewall/actions/runs/9943312786/workflow?pr=227

to wit

jobs:
  shellcheck:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
...
      - name: Checkout repo
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Run ShellCheck
        id: shellcheck_id
        uses: ludeeus/action-shellcheck@master

The log: https://github.com/linux-system-roles/firewall/actions/runs/9943312786/job/27466833505?pr=227

The error:

  curl -Lso "/home/runner/work/_actions/ludeeus/action-shellcheck/master/sc.tar.xz" \
    "${baseurl}/${INPUT_VERSION}/shellcheck-${INPUT_VERSION}.${osvariant}.x86_64.tar.xz"

  tar -xf "/home/runner/work/_actions/ludeeus/action-shellcheck/master/sc.tar.xz" -C "/home/runner/work/_actions/ludeeus/action-shellcheck/master"
  mv "/home/runner/work/_actions/ludeeus/action-shellcheck/master/shellcheck-${INPUT_VERSION}/shellcheck" \
    "/home/runner/work/_actions/ludeeus/action-shellcheck/master/shellcheck"
...
xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

maybe something changed recently in ubuntu-latest, and now tar -xf does not automatically recognize the .xz extension and use the xz decompresser?

Links

• Link to action run:
• Link to action configuration:

[ludeeus]

It seems to have been an intermittent network/transfer issue inside the runner. The next run (with identical runner details) worked. https://github.com/linux-system-roles/firewall/actions/workflows/shellcheck.yml