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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Basic validation workflow fails without useful explanation","articleBody":"**Description:**\nWhen there's a `Severity: high` failure from `npm audit --audit-level=high`, the workflow fails\n\n**Task version:**\n`main`\n\n**Platform:**\n- [x] Ubuntu\n- [x] macOS\n- [x] Windows\n\n**Runner type:**\n- [x] Hosted\n- [ ] Self-hosted\n\n**Repro steps:**  \n1. Sync a fork of this repository after the release of a new `Severity: high` item but before the corresponding PR is merged to this repository\n\n**Expected behavior:**\nA useful error on the overview explaining what's gone wrong (the severity high entries)\n\n**Actual behavior:**\n\n[![❌ Chore: Version Update and Checkout Update to v6 (#973) #1](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9c9d550d-52c7-4f97-9de9-1680c2ff0ae6)](https://github.com/jsoref/setup-java/actions/runs/21627561979)\n\n#### Annotations\n9 errors\n❌ [Basic validation / build (macos-latest)](https://github.com/jsoref/setup-java/actions/runs/21627561979/job/62331530517#step:9:48)\nProcess completed with exit code 1.\n❌ [Basic validation / build (macos-latest)](https://github.com/jsoref/setup-java/actions/runs/21627561979/job/62331530517#step:8:46)\nJava setup process failed due to: Available version not found\n❌ [Basic validation / build (macos-latest)](https://github.com/jsoref/setup-java/actions/runs/21627561979/job/62331530517#step:8:44)\nJava setup process failed due to: Available version not found\n❌ [Basic validation / build (ubuntu-latest)](https://github.com/jsoref/setup-java/actions/runs/21627561979/job/62331530505#step:9:48)\nProcess completed with exit code 1.\n❌ [Basic validation / build (ubuntu-latest)](https://github.com/jsoref/setup-java/actions/runs/21627561979/job/62331530505#step:8:51)\nJava setup process failed due to: Available version not found\n❌ [Basic validation / build (ubuntu-latest)](https://github.com/jsoref/setup-java/actions/runs/21627561979/job/62331530505#step:8:50)\nJava setup process failed due to: Available version not found\n❌ [Basic validation / build (windows-latest)](https://github.com/jsoref/setup-java/actions/runs/21627561979/job/62331530500#step:9:48)\nProcess completed with exit code 1.\n❌ [Basic validation / build (windows-latest)](https://github.com/jsoref/setup-java/actions/runs/21627561979/job/62331530500#step:8:10)\nJava setup process failed due to: Available version not found\n❌ [Basic validation / build (windows-latest)](https://github.com/jsoref/setup-java/actions/runs/21627561979/job/62331530500#step:8:9)\nJava setup process failed due to: Available version not found\n\n---\n\nTo a naive reader, it feels like the problem is \"Java setup process failed due to: Available version not found\", but that _doesn't_ appear to be the problem at all. Note that this is error *also* lousy, but it's out of scope.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jsoref","@type":"Person","name":"jsoref"},"datePublished":"2026-02-03T11:09:39.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/977/setup-java/issues/977"}