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Dave Tapley

@davetapley

Is act supposed to clean up containers?
I find myself having to docker stop $(docker ps --filter "name=act-*" -q) && docker system prune quite often 🤔

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Keith Zantow

@kzantow

Hi, I'm having a hard time getting any docker images building using act, although this doesn't really even seem to be docker related. I've tried a number of things including specifying what I think is the "medium" image to use like act -P ubuntu-latest=ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest -j test (and ubuntu:js-latest) but I end up with problems executing the actions at all:

Exec command '[node /actions/docker-build-push-action@v2/dist/index.js]'
| OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:380: starting container process caused: exec: "node": executable file not found in $PATH: unknown

. Am I doing something completely wrong?

1 reply

Keith Zantow

@kzantow

Also: does act support service containers? It seems these are not running by default, at least.

1 reply

Andy Maloney

@asmaloney

Heya! New to "act". I can't find info on how to set the tag I want when I use "act release". Is this possible? (Background - I'm trying to write an action that will zip up the repo while skipping some files and I want to give the zip an intelligent name using the tag of the release.)

1 reply

Paulo Matos

@pmatos

Hi - what happens to artifacts when running a workflow through act? Is there a way to save them somewhere on disk ?

5 replies

imerkle

@imerkle

Whats the working dir after checkout ? Is it github_workspace?

imerkle

@imerkle

I'm using docker compose and mapping `{$GITHUB_WORKSPACE}:/myworkspace in volume but myworkspace does not contains contents of my repo

1 reply

This works in github sctions

Ari Huttunen

@StatisticalMice

Hi! What does --github-instance actually do? Does it cause act to execute the actions in the enterprise server's runners, or something else?

7 replies

reivilibre.element

@reivilibre.element:librepush.net

[m]

hi folks, I'm getting output like this:

[Tests/lint-3]   🐳  docker exec cmd=[node /var/run/act/actions/actions-setup-python@v2/dist/index.js] user=
[Tests/lint-3]   💬  ::debug::Semantic version spec of 3.x is 3.x
[Tests/lint-3]   💬  ::debug::isExplicit: 
[Tests/lint-3]   💬  ::debug::explicit? false
[Tests/lint-3]   💬  ::debug::evaluating 0 versions
[Tests/lint-3]   💬  ::debug::match not found
| Version 3.x was not found in the local cache
[Tests/lint-3]   ❗  ::error::API rate limit exceeded for **My IP address**. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)
[Tests/lint-3]   ❌  Failure - actions/setup-python@v2

I'm not really sure what's going on here; this looks like a GitHub API rate limit message. Is this something that act is doing -- if so, is there some way to authenticate to GitHub to get a higher rate limit?

2 replies

dtracers

@dtracers

Question!
I am trying to run a workflow that uses git commands but it seems the image I am using does not come with git installed
Is there a way to add git to the image used?

For reference when I first ran it and it asked me what image to install I chose "large"

15 replies

Nathan Schwermann

@nschwermann

Hey guys, I am running on osx but it only seems to see workflows from one file in the workflows directory. Using this repo it only sees workflow from test.yaml not publish.yaml when runing act -list am I doing something wrong? How can I run the publish workflow?
https://github.com/nschwermann/polkaj/tree/android_support

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Ari Huttunen

@StatisticalMice

I succeeded in running act against our company's GitHub Enterprise server, but configuring this required one innovative step that I don't see documented. In short, this required downloading the docker image that we use for building with GHA. Then it requires the --github-instance flag. It also requires this in .actrc, which should be in instructions:

-P self-hosted=some-host.saunalahti.fi/sre/actions-runner-dind:latest
some-host.saunalahti.fi/sre/actions-runner-dind:latest

Andy Maloney

@asmaloney

How do I set which tag I want when I use "act release"?

sid-ihmperf

@sid-ihmperf

I'm getting an error while running Act inside a self-hosted runner.

creating settings.xml with server-id: github; environment variables: username=$GITHUB_ACTOR, password=$GITHUB_TOKEN, and gpg-passphrase=null
[Complete pipeline/Creating new docker image and uploading to ECR] ❗ ::error::EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/github/home/.m2'
[Complete pipeline/Creating new docker image and uploading to ECR] ❌ Failure - Setup JDK 11

4 replies

gdanov

@gdanov

Hi, I'm using buildx and build-push action to build docker images. Every run act downloads the FROM images fresh and this takes ages. Any tricks to avoid this and speed-up local development?

1 reply

lfa-vasconcellos

@lfa-vasconcellos

Hello everyone, I'm having some difficulties trying to get my cached actions to working using act. Can you guys give me some tips or point me in the direction of some documentation? Couldn't find anything on the repositories

8 replies

Enrique Llorente Pastora

@qinqon

Hi am trying to run so github actions that run some golang tests and when it does go get it fails at TLS certificate check go: github.com/stretchr/testify@v1.7.0: Get "https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/stretchr/testify/@v/v1.7.0.mod": x509: certificate signed by unknown authority, can I share the golang cache with act ?

Fedor Lapshin

@FedorLap2006

Hi everyone, I'm having problems with github/super-linter@v4 on my local act environment. I'm running the whole thing using my own custom image (act-latest + docker-compose).
It seems super-linter cannot find /var/run/act/workflow/event.json file. I tried to test if something is wrong with the file, therefore added jq -r '.repository.owner.login' <"${GITHUB_EVENT_PATH}" (the line super-linter's script was failing on) to the same job as super-linter is running in - it worked fine.
But when super-linter tries to access this file, I get this

[ci.yml/tst]   | 2021-09-21 13:18:14 [INFO]   Successfully found:[GITHUB_EVENT_PATH], value:[/var/run/act/workflow/event.json]
[ci.yml/tst]   | /action/lib/linter.sh: line 478: /var/run/act/workflow/event.json: No such file or directory
[ci.yml/tst]   | 2021-09-21 13:18:14 [ERROR]   Failed to get [GITHUB_ORG]!

Fedor Lapshin

@FedorLap2006

Also, according to a thread I found here (made by @dannystaple ), I could have set the GITHUB_ORG manually, but

    steps:
      - uses: github/super-linter@v4
        env:
          RUN_LOCAL: true
          GITHUB_ORG: my-org

gives no effect

21 replies

Sting Alleman

@stingalleman

Hi all, I'm writing a custom GH action and I want to test it locally. Is this possible?

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name: "test workflow aaah"

on: ["workflow_dispatch", "push"]

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: macos-11
    steps:
      - uses: pakket-project/test/setup-builder@main

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pakket-project/test/setup-builder is locally

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Samuel Wecker

@swecker

Does act support the full "needs context"?
I'm logging it and getting:

{ "job-01": { "outputs": null }, "job-02": { "outputs": null } }

and I was hoping to see the result field (see: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/contexts#needs-context)

I don't know if this just isn't supported yet, or if I'm referencing the context incorrectly or something.

3 replies

ged

@gedw99

Crazy question maybe, but has anyone thought about running act on fly.io ?

Ryanv2

@hackercat:matrix.org

[m]

Please don't

Jasper Nygaard

@jnus

Hi all. I'm trouble shooting an issue where I use OctopusDeploy/install-octopus-cli-action in a workflow, but get the error 'Error: reference delta not found' when running with act. Anyone seen this error before?

Shashwat Arghode

@ShashwatArghode

Hi All,
I am a new ACT user struggling to run the following CI job locally. Any help is appreciated.
CI job: https://github.com/prestodb/presto/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci.yml
Command: act -v
Logs:

DEBU[0000] Loading environment from /Users/sarghode/IdeaProjects/prestodb/.env 
DEBU[0000] Loading secrets from /Users/sarghode/IdeaProjects/prestodb/.secrets 
DEBU[0000] Loading workflows from '/Users/sarghode/IdeaProjects/prestodb/.github/workflows' 
DEBU[0000] Loading workflows recursively                
DEBU[0000] Found workflow 'ci.yml' in '/Users/sarghode/IdeaProjects/prestodb/.github/workflows/ci.yml' 
DEBU[0000] Found workflow 'cleanup.yml' in '/Users/sarghode/IdeaProjects/prestodb/.github/workflows/cleanup.yml' 
DEBU[0000] Reading workflow '/Users/sarghode/IdeaProjects/prestodb/.github/workflows/ci.yml' 
DEBU[0000] Correcting if statements '/Users/sarghode/IdeaProjects/prestodb/.github/workflows/ci.yml' 
DEBU[0000] Reading workflow '/Users/sarghode/IdeaProjects/prestodb/.github/workflows/cleanup.yml' 
DEBU[0000] Correcting if statements '/Users/sarghode/IdeaProjects/prestodb/.github/workflows/cleanup.yml' 
DEBU[0000] Planning event: push

It crashes after this setup without any error log.

Thanks.

3 replies

Mathijs van Veluw

@BlackDex

Hello there, I have a question regarding docker images build during an act run. When using docker/setup-buildx-action and docker/build-push-action the build images do not seem to appear in my local image list when checking docker image list is there a way to have this working?

1 reply

Mathijs van Veluw

@BlackDex

Seems setup-buildx-action is doing something to mess with the local images

if i use DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 instead it works, so i will just do some if: env.ACT checking :)

If someone has a better idea or solution, please share :).

Isaac Guerreiro

@isaacguerreir

Hello, everyone. I'm trying to run locally my action, but didn't work. `jobs:
test:
runs-on: self-hosted
permissions:
contents: read
packages: write
container:
image: mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/base:ubuntu
options: --user 1001

steps: 
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Run action
  uses: ./`

2 replies

Anyone know how I could run this locally.

Colin Alworth

@niloc132

i'm seeing a difference in behavior between ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest and ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:full-latest when running actions/checkout@v2 with a with:path: specified - act-latest behaves as expected and the layout makes sense, but full-latest gets permission errors when trying to set things up. Where would be the best place to file this?

3 replies

Mohsin Hijazee

@mohsinhijazee

I have this args for an action and the "Expressions" don't seem to work

 name: Fetch environment variables from AWS Parameter Store
      uses: classtinginc/chamber-action@master
      id: chamber
      with:
        args: export --format dotenv --output-file parameters.env ${{ env.SERVICE_NAME }}

So instead of the variable SERVICE_NAME being injected, the literal ${{ is being injected. Any ideas?

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MarkoJelovic

@MarkoJelovic

Hi everyone. I'm using act to locally test my github action to create minikube cluster. This is the code I have for this task.
'''
name: Minikube deploy
on:
push:
branches:

  - master

jobs:
testjob1:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:

  - name: Install minikube
    run: |
      sudo curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
      sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube
  - uses: yokawasa/action-setup-kube-tools@v0.7.1
    with:
      setup-tools: kubectl
      kubectl: '1.18.18'

  - name: Add user
    run: |
      getent group sudo
      getent group docker
      echo $USER
      sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
      getent group docker
      sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock
      echo "hi"

  - name: Start minikube
    run: |
      sudo minikube delete
      minikube start
      kubectl get pods -A
      echo "end"

'''
The "Add user" part is me trying to give docker non root user so that docker commands could be run. Ubuntu image used is ubuntu-latest=ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:runner-latest
Everything is running fine until this next line which is part of minikube start command and then it freezes.
'''
Downloading Kubernetes v1.22.2 preload ...

> preloaded-images-k8s-v13-v1...: 511.84 MiB / 511.84 MiB  100.00% 14.22 Mi

'''
If I add --alsologtostderr I get this type of error on the same part of running process.
'''
libmachine: Error dialing TCP: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:55660: connect: connection refused
'''
So the problem is I can't create minikube cluster with act. Does anyone know what is the cause of this errors ?

Eduardo Robles

@edulix

Hello! how can I add more RAM to act runner?

4 replies

jeff-pcln

@jeff-pcln

hi! just found this repo today and had a question. i am using it with a private npm registry and get UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY as an error. does anyone know how to bypass this?

2 replies

Timothy J Laurent

@timothyjlaurent

I'm seeing

| OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:380: starting container process caused: exec: "node": executable file not found in $PATH: unknown

when I try to run the checkout action

Timothy J Laurent

@timothyjlaurent

How can I tell what running act is using?

my workflow runs-on

    runs-on: [self-hosted, dev]

And I have

-P self-hosted=ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-20.04 -P dev=ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-20.04

in my ~/.actrc

^ does that all look right?

Timothy J Laurent

@timothyjlaurent

So I was using a "Container" argument and it looks like ACT will use that instead of the runners.

So I cleared that up and added a GITHUB_TOKEN that was going great until I tried to run a docker container action and it couldn't find java

Szymon Nowak

@szimek

Hi! I've got an issue with a running a local action. I've got a local Dockerfile, so in my workflow I've got uses: ./, which causes act to generate an invalid tag for Docker build command (i.e. act-:latest):

docker build -t act-:latest --platform  /Users/...

Is there any workaround for this?

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Timothy J Laurent

@timothyjlaurent

Turns out that the ~/.actrc / ./.actrc needs to be one parameter per line.

-P self-hosted=ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-20.04
-P dev=ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-20.04

Maybe I'm confusing the issues I had with the container: param?

So here's a summary of the issues I've encountered.

Using the container parameter will override whatever is in the runs-on
Docker-based actions aren't working - eg java not found on JVM image.

Error: Error response from daemon: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:380: starting container process caused: exec: "java": executable file not found in $PATH: unknown

Is there some way to enable these features on Act?

2 replies

Tomasz Dłuski

@Toumash

Is it possible to run node14 in act? I can only see node12 images. When running some yarn cli ive got following error

Publish in Chrome Web Store/publish] ⭐  Run Install chrome web store cli
yarn global v1.22.5
warning package.json: No license field
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
error chrome-webstore-upload-cli@2.0.1: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version "^14.13.1 || >=16.0.0". Got "12.20.1"
error Found incompatible module.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/global for documentation about this command.
[Publish in Chrome Web Store/publish]   ❌  Failure - Install chrome web store cli

but I do have

- name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
      uses: actions/setup-node@v2
      with:
        node-version: 14.x

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ged

@gedw99

I want to get off github but still use my workflows . What i dont see is how i can do builds on wi diws mac and linux cause the Act system currentky uses Docker . Am i missing something ?? ?

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