Running xcodebuild -resolvePackageDependencies hangs and times out.

[whsalazar]

Description

Job fails to run on GitHub hosted runner for macOS-latest. It fails because the "SwiftPM Resolve dependencies" action timed out after 10 minutes while trying to resolve Swift package dependencies, this occurs on different packages each time. It does not apply to a specific package.

This occurs if the caching step is added before resolve or not. In the current workflow the caching step was removed.

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 22.04
• Ubuntu 24.04
• macOS 13
• macOS 13 Arm64
• macOS 14
• macOS 14 Arm64
• macOS 15
• macOS 15 Arm64
• macOS 26 Arm64
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022
• Windows Server 2025

Image version and build link

Image: macos-15-arm64

Version: 20250928.2397

Included Software: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/macos-15-arm64/20250928.2397/images/macos/macos-15-ar…

Image Release: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/releases/tag/macos-15-arm64%2F20250928.2397

Is it regression?

No

Expected behavior

Xcode build should be able to resolve and the build should complete successfully. Tested on my local machine and it was working without issue.

Local machine:
Apple M1 Pro
16 GB
Tahoe 26.0.1

Actual behavior

The job failed because the "SwiftPM Resolve dependencies" action timed out after 10 minutes while trying to resolve Swift package dependencies, this occurs on different packages each time. It does not apply to a specific package.

This occurs if the caching step is added before resolve or not. In the current workflow the caching step was removed.

Repro steps

Workflow:

name: iOS Stage Build and Test

on:
workflow_dispatch: # Allow manual triggering of the workflow
pull_request:
branches:
- develop # Trigger on pull requests targeting the develop branch
- main # Trigger on pull requests targeting the main branch

jobs:
build:
runs-on: macos-latest # Use a macOS runner for iOS builds

steps:
  - name: Checkout code
    uses: actions/checkout@v4 # Action to checkout your repository code

  - name: Select Xcode version
    uses: swift-actions/setup-swift@v2 # If you need a specific Swift/Xcode version

  - name: Configure Git credentials
    run: |
      git config --global url."https://${{ secrets.SWIFT_PACKAGE_TOKEN }}:x-oauth-basic@github.com/".insteadOf "[https://github.com/"](https://github.com/%22)

  - name: SwiftPM Resolve dependencies
    run: |
      xcodebuild -resolvePackageDependencies \
      -scheme "<Schema>" \
      -project "<Project>.xcodeproj" \
      -verbose
    timeout-minutes: 10
  - name: Build iOS project
    run: |
      xcodebuild clean build \ 
      -scheme "<Schema>" \ 
      -project "<Project>.xcodeproj" \ 
      -destination 'platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 17,OS=18.4'
    timeout-minutes: 10

[erik-bershel]

Hey @whsalazar!

Your workflow has artificial timeouts set, and it crashes when they're reached. This seems like expected behavior. The performance of the hosted agent and the local machine will not be the same, and the configuration is also unlikely to be identical, which cannot be a confirmation of a bug.

[whsalazar]

@erik-bershel The timeout was added to not have to wait for the max timeout to surface the error. If you remove the timeout, it still times out with a "timeout" error but takes the full 6 hours of the default setting.

[whsalazar]

@erik-bershel Can you reopen this issue based on additional feedback? This is for a customer so do we have an internal way of surfacing this issue? Thanks.

[erik-bershel]

This way, the problem is framed differently, yes.

Please provide the full log of the successful local build and the log of the failed one. Be sure to check the log for any sensitive information. If you're unsure about sensitive information, you can find me on Teams by my name.

We need to understand the configuration steps actions in both cases. After analyzing the logs, we may need additional information about your local configuration.