# Hugo deploy step to gh-pages hangs at "updating\_pages"

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-deploy-step-to-gh-pages-hangs-at-updating-pages/40116>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [August 23, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-deploy-step-to-gh-pages-hangs-at-updating-pages/40116 "2022-08-23T00:28:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![mdm508](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/mdm508/32/14562_2.png) [@mdm508](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/mdm508)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-deploy-step-to-gh-pages-hangs-at-updating-pages/40116/1 "2022-08-23T00:28:09Z")

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I’ve followed all the instuctions at [hugo guide to publish on github pages](https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/).

After pushing I get to the deploy step and it just hangs telling me “updating\_pages” until it eventually times out.

here is a link to [my repo](https://github.com/mdm508/mdm508.github.io).

besides that I have this log file.

2022-08-22T23:59:01.3784752Z Requested labels: ubuntu-latest  
2022-08-22T23:59:01.3784803Z Job defined at: mdm508/mdm508.github.io/dynamic/pages/pages-build-deployment@refs/heads/main  
2022-08-22T23:59:01.3784818Z Waiting for a runner to pick up this job…  
2022-08-22T23:59:02.0690379Z Job is waiting for a hosted runner to come online.  
2022-08-22T23:59:05.6001040Z Job is about to start running on the hosted runner: GitHub Actions 2 (hosted)  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7018251Z Current runner version: ‘2.295.0’  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7044351Z ##[group]Operating System  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7044807Z Ubuntu  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7045170Z 20.04.4  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7045444Z LTS  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7045671Z ##[endgroup]  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7045986Z ##[group]Virtual Environment  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7046342Z Environment: ubuntu-20.04  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7046654Z Version: 20220814.1  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7047132Z Included Software: [runner-images/Ubuntu2004-Readme.md at ubuntu20/20220814.1 · actions/runner-images · GitHub](https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/ubuntu20/20220814.1/images/linux/Ubuntu2004-Readme.md)  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7047789Z Image Release: [Release Ubuntu 20.04 (20220814 update) · actions/runner-images · GitHub](https://github.com/actions/runner-images/releases/tag/ubuntu20%2F20220814.1)  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7048166Z ##[endgroup]  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7048487Z ##[group]Runner Image Provisioner  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7048864Z 1.0.0.0-main-20220812-3  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7049115Z ##[endgroup]  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7049738Z ##[group]GITHUB\_TOKEN Permissions  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7050233Z Contents: read  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7050687Z Metadata: read  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7050982Z Pages: write  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7051270Z ##[endgroup]  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7054648Z Secret source: Actions  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7055177Z Prepare workflow directory  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.7888228Z Prepare all required actions  
2022-08-22T23:59:08.8069159Z Getting action download info  
2022-08-22T23:59:09.0138860Z Download action repository ‘actions/deploy-pages@v1’ (SHA:a87638c69ce253619c881e20b8c40a3ed5aeec2c)  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.1256640Z ##[group]Run actions/deploy-pages@v1  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.1257098Z with:  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.1257424Z emit\_telemetry: false  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.1257954Z token: \*\*\*  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.1258287Z timeout: 600000  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.1258653Z error\_count: 10  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.1258942Z reporting\_interval: 5000  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.1259310Z artifact\_name: github-pages  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.1259668Z ##[endgroup]  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.4938181Z Actor: github-pages[bot]  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.4938522Z Action ID: 2907904888  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.4939501Z Artifact URL: [https://pipelines.actions.githubusercontent.com/0FLshcof0xaaX9ah7qrRHMUi7hGH5Jsd9xLvxYHuK8BJqmyDce/\_apis/pipelines/workflows/2907904888/artifacts?api-version=6.0-preview](https://pipelines.actions.githubusercontent.com/0FLshcof0xaaX9ah7qrRHMUi7hGH5Jsd9xLvxYHuK8BJqmyDce/_apis/pipelines/workflows/2907904888/artifacts?api-version=6.0-preview)  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.5962634Z {“count”:1,“value”:[{“containerId”:752752,“size”:1116160,“signedContent”:null,“fileContainerResourceUrl”:“[https://pipelines.actions.githubusercontent.com/0FLshcof0xaaX9ah7qrRHMUi7hGH5Jsd9xLvxYHuK8BJqmyDce/\_apis/resources/Containers/752752",“type”:“actions\_storage”,“name”:“github-pages”,“url”:“https://pipelines.actions.githubusercontent.com/0FLshcof0xaaX9ah7qrRHMUi7hGH5Jsd9xLvxYHuK8BJqmyDce/\_apis/pipelines/1/runs/2/artifacts?artifactName=github-pages”,“expiresOn”:“2022-08-23T23:58:55.1671167Z”,"items](https://pipelines.actions.githubusercontent.com/0FLshcof0xaaX9ah7qrRHMUi7hGH5Jsd9xLvxYHuK8BJqmyDce/_apis/resources/Containers/752752%22,%22type%22:%22actions_storage%22,%22name%22:%22github-pages%22,%22url%22:%22https://pipelines.actions.githubusercontent.com/0FLshcof0xaaX9ah7qrRHMUi7hGH5Jsd9xLvxYHuK8BJqmyDce/_apis/pipelines/1/runs/2/artifacts?artifactName=github-pages%22,%22expiresOn%22:%222022-08-23T23:58:55.1671167Z%22,%22items)”:null}]}  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.5963921Z Creating deployment with payload:  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.5964268Z {  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.5965165Z “artifact\_url”: “[https://pipelines.actions.githubusercontent.com/0FLshcof0xaaX9ah7qrRHMUi7hGH5Jsd9xLvxYHuK8BJqmyDce/\_apis/pipelines/1/runs/2/artifacts?artifactName=github-pages&%24expand=SignedContent](https://pipelines.actions.githubusercontent.com/0FLshcof0xaaX9ah7qrRHMUi7hGH5Jsd9xLvxYHuK8BJqmyDce/_apis/pipelines/1/runs/2/artifacts?artifactName=github-pages&%24expand=SignedContent)”,  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.5968275Z “pages\_build\_version”: “92d5a36ed7208755d617e32599ad721f444e2a6d”,  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.6028982Z “oidc\_token”: “\*\*\*”  
2022-08-22T23:59:10.6029395Z }  
2022-08-22T23:59:11.1175381Z Created deployment for 92d5a36ed7208755d617e32599ad721f444e2a6d  
2022-08-22T23:59:11.1176283Z {“page\_url”:“[https://mdm508.github.io/“,“status\_url”:“https://api.github.com/repos/mdm508/mdm508.github.io/pages/deployment/status/92d5a36ed7208755d617e32599ad721f444e2a6d”,“preview\_url”:”](https://mdm508.github.io/%22,%22status_url%22:%22https://api.github.com/repos/mdm508/mdm508.github.io/pages/deployment/status/92d5a36ed7208755d617e32599ad721f444e2a6d%22,%22preview_url%22:%22)”}  
2022-08-22T23:59:11.1176675Z  
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2022-08-23T00:09:15.2061811Z Timeout reached, aborting!  
2022-08-23T00:09:15.2090878Z ##[error]Timeout reached, aborting!  
2022-08-23T00:09:15.2341387Z Evaluate and set environment url  
2022-08-23T00:09:15.2345899Z Evaluated environment url: [https://mdm508.github.io/](https://mdm508.github.io/)  
2022-08-23T00:09:15.2346304Z Cleaning up orphan processes

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**Author:** ![jmooring](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/jmooring/32/4214_2.png) [@jmooring](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/jmooring)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-deploy-step-to-gh-pages-hangs-at-updating-pages/40116/2 "2022-08-23T15:51:16Z")

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I don’t know if this is part of the problem, but it’s wrong:  
[https://github.com/mdm508/mdm508.github.io/blob/main/.gitmodules](https://github.com/mdm508/mdm508.github.io/blob/main/.gitmodules)

Look at the path.

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**Author:** ![mdm508](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/mdm508/32/14562_2.png) [@mdm508](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/mdm508)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-deploy-step-to-gh-pages-hangs-at-updating-pages/40116/3 "2022-08-24T01:01:31Z")

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Thanks so much you saved me again.

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-deploy-step-to-gh-pages-hangs-at-updating-pages/40116/4 "2022-08-26T01:01:51Z")

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