Fails on GitHub Actions with ubuntu-24.04 (Cannot utime: Function not implemented)

[bemoody]

Using the GitHub action pypa/[email protected] appears to work if the workflow uses the GitHub ubuntu-22.04 runner (currently ubuntu-latest.)
It appears to fail when using the ubuntu-24.04 runner (currently in "beta".)

It appears that the reason for this is that, after having completed the x86_64 build, and while trying to copy the project into the manylinux2014_i686 container, the tar command fails (I guess that this is a tar command running inside the container.)

Specifically, tar gives the error message Cannot utime: Function not implemented.

Here's an excerpt from the GitHub action log:

                                                              ESC[32m✓ ESC[0m0.05s
##[group]Starting container image quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_i686:2024.07.02-0...

info: This container will host the build for cp312-manylinux_i686, pp39-manylinux_i686...
+ docker run --rm quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_i686:2024.07.02-0 uname -m
[...]
##[endgroup]
                                                             ESC[32m✓ ESC[0m25.02s
##[group]Copying project into container...

    + mkdir -p /project
tar: ./pyproject.toml: Cannot utime: Function not implemented
tar: ./README.md: Cannot utime: Function not implemented
tar: ./LICENSE: Cannot utime: Function not implemented
tar: ./setup.py: Cannot utime: Function not implemented
[...]
tar: .: Cannot utime: Function not implemented
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
##[endgroup]
                                                              ESC[31m✕ ESC[0m0.31s
##[error]Command tar cf - . | docker exec -i cibuildwheel-e2d3bec0-afbc-4f21-a6dc-40fe9ebbaafa tar --no-same-owner -xC /project -f - failed with code 2. 

##[error]Process completed with exit code 1.

I don't know why this fails (a bug in Github's configuration? a bug in docker?) - but perhaps this could be worked-around by using tar --touch?

Working example

name: wheels

on:
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - '.github/workflows/wheels.yml'
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  wheels:
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        os:
          - ubuntu-22.04
          - windows-2022
          - macos-13
          - macos-14

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

      - name: Set source timestamp
        run: |
          echo SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=$(git log -n1 --pretty=%ct) >> "$GITHUB_ENV"

      - uses: pypa/[email protected]
        env:
          CIBW_BUILD: "cp312-* pp39-*"

      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: cibw-wheels-${{ matrix.os }}-${{ strategy.job-index }}
          path: ./wheelhouse/*.whl

Broken example

on:
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - '.github/workflows/wheels.yml'
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  wheels:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        os:
          - ubuntu-24.04
          - windows-2022
          - macos-13
          - macos-14

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

      - name: Set source timestamp
        run: |
          echo SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=$(git log -n1 --pretty=%ct) >> "$GITHUB_ENV"

      - uses: pypa/[email protected]
        env:
          CIBW_BUILD: "cp312-* pp39-*"

      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: cibw-wheels-${{ matrix.os }}-${{ strategy.job-index }}
          path: ./wheelhouse/*.whl

[mayeut]

I couldn't reproduce this error: https://github.com/mayeut/cibuildwheel/actions/runs/10407833822/job/28823988398
Maybe that was an issue with the runner ? (it's been updated between the failed run by @adamchainz and my run)

[adamchainz]

I’ve just tried again, and yeah, seems fixed. Perhaps @bemoody can try again too, and maybe close the issue?

[bemoody]

I re-ran the workflow that failed and it worked this time. Thanks for looking into it!