Golangci-lint exit with code 137

[idanl21]

Hey!
I'm running your GitHub lint action that worked great! but now somehow I started to get that golangci-lint exit with code 137 error that was caused by Out Of Mem error.
My conf

      version: v1.45
      working-directory: opensearch-operator
      args: --timeout=6m --skip-dirs="(^|/)responses($|/)"

[matzew]

We notice the same:

Killed
  
  Error: golangci-lint exit with code 137

[matzew]

golangci/golangci-lint-action@v3

seems not to have this issue

[ldez]

Hello, the context of this issue is not clear, can you provide more information (Go version, action version, etc.)?

[karl-johan-grahn]

We also started getting this out of nowhere. Similar to @matzew it was resolved by upgrading from golangci-lint-action@v2 to v3

[marcus-vw]

We have been facing the same issue, even with golangci-lint-action@v3.
Our workflow failed when we used golangci/golangci-lint-action@v3 with golangci-lint version 1.50.1. We could fix the workflow by using golangci-lint-1.51.0. The action was changed as seen below:

      - name: lint
        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v3
        with:
          version: v1.51.0  # use 1.51.0 instead of v1.50.1
          args: --timeout 10m
          skip-pkg-cache: true  # don't cache or restore ~/go/pkg.
          skip-build-cache: true # don't cache or restore ~/.cache/go-build

[derekwilling]

I am still seeing this issue with the following:

level=info msg="[lintersdb] Active 16 linters: [errcheck errorlint gci gocritic godot gosec gosimple govet ineffassign misspell nonamedreturns staticcheck typecheck unconvert unused whitespace]"
  level=info msg="[loader] Go packages loading at mode 575 (imports|name|exports_file|deps|files|types_sizes|compiled_files) took 2m43.333695121s"
  level=info msg="[runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 1.349223312s"
  Killed
  
  Error: golangci-lint exit with code 137
  Ran golangci-lint in 48[39](https://github.com/APP/actions/runs/1/job/1?pr=1#step:9:41)37ms

The action is defined:

      - name: Run golangci-lint
        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v3
        with:
          version: v1.53
          args: --verbose --timeout 15m --out-${NO_FUTURE}format colored-line-number # https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint-action/issues/119
          only-new-issues: true
          skip-pkg-cache: true
          skip-build-cache: true

[ldez]

This issue seems related to the fact of using a golangci-lint version that does not support the Go version used in your CI.

• v1.56.0 -> go <= 1.22
• v1.54.0 -> go <= 1.21
• v1.51.0 -> go <= 1.20
• v1.48.0 -> go <= 1.19
• v1.45.0 -> go <= 1.18

[JFDValente]

I just updated my project to go 1.23, and I got this problem, which version do you recommend I use to solve it? Using version 1.60.3 it still gives the same error

[ldez]

https://golangci-lint.run/welcome/faq/#which-go-versions-are-supported

Basically, it's because you are using a golangci-lint binary that is not compiled with go1.23.

The official binaries are compiled with go1.23 since v1.60.0.

To check that:

$ golangci-lint version
golangci-lint has version 1.61.0 built with go1.23.1 from a1d6c560 on 2024-09-09T17:44:42Z

Also go1.23 should be installed inside your CI.

[zhangyangyu]

I am using go 1.24 and golangci-lint 1.64.7(the latest) and could still get the error. Seems it needs lots of memory and OOM. So I add GOMEMLIMIT to solve it.

- name: golangci lint
  uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v6
  with:
    version: v1.64.7
    args: --verbose
    skip-cache: true
  env:
    GOMEMLIMIT: "6GiB"

6GiB for GitHub Linux runner has a memory cap 7GiB.