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Godefroid Chapelle

@gotcha

@gotcha
I did not find the way to only run one "variant" of the matrix defined in a workflow.
I also did not find how to run a single workflow rather than all.
Is it possible ? Any hint welcome.

6 replies

jorgepiloto

@jorgepiloto:matrix.org

[m]

Hi all, it's Jorge!

I just recently started using this amazing tool act. I'm building a Python package template which generates its own GitHub actions according to user input requirements (minimum Python version, for example). TCould not find a part of the path '/run/act/actions/actions-setup-python@v2/.github/python.json'.herefore, I though that it would be super cool to have a workflow file and colling act in GH actions just to test the generated actions from the template. However, it got the following error:

Could not find a part of the path '/run/act/actions/actions-setup-python@v2/.github/python.json'.

Nevertheless, act gets executed in GitHub actions but because of previous error, the CI detects it as a failure.

I am aware about the fact that act was not designed with this purpose in mind (to be called as a github actions run command). But would be super cool to understand previous error or even figuring out how to solve it.

Thanks in advance for any kind of support/guidance you provide me on this 🚀

1 reply

jorgepiloto

@jorgepiloto:matrix.org

[m]

It complains about non-existent dir, see:

ls: cannot access '/var/run/act/actions': No such file or directory

4 replies

What's weird is that it properly executes all the jobs in the rendered actions file

Thonda Taylor II

@taylortechdigital

Still having issues when trying to run the entire suite

DEBU[0000] context needs => map[pre_job:map[outputs:map[branch:${{ steps.get-deploy.outputs.branch }} deploying_service:${{ steps.get-deploy.outputs.deploying_service }}]]]
DEBU[0000] false
FATA[0000] yaml: unmarshal errors:
line 163: cannot unmarshal !!str ${{ fro... into []interface {}

Has this been fixed yet or is it still a know issue?

nektos/act@9868e13

10 replies

Burak Can Kahraman

@burakcank

Hi, I tried to find some explanation on how checkout works on act after coming across with the following "Skipping local actions/checkout because workdir was already copied". I went into the container and it seems like some of my stuff, that wasn't checked in the repo was there. AFAI looked into it, act is copying the contents of the source workspace to destination workspace. Why is that ? Why not just checkout the git repo ? I am probably missing some things. What are the steps for this process, I would appreciate if someone enlightens me.

5 replies

Ankush Katiyar

@ankushkatiyar

Hello I'm facing problem for checkout in develop branch using our github action workflow file

name: learn-github-actions
on: [push]
jobs:
check-bats-version:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:

  - uses: actions/checkout@v3
    with:
      ref: develop

I got this error

Error: The runs.using key in action.yml must be one of: [composite docker node12], got node16

13 replies

and i'm using command "act -s GITHUB_TOKEN" from our terminal

Orfeas Kypris

@orphefs

hi everyone! I have been trying to get act to work on my workflow but I think I am missing something. It gets to DEBU[0000] Planning event: push and it stops without spawning a Docker container. My workflow file is correct as it works on Github actions. Is there something obvious I am missing here?

4 replies

Orfeas Kypris

@orphefs

Hi again everyone! my github workflow uses the azure/login@v1 and I was wondering if anyone knows a way to pass the secret key via environment variable in order to authenticate. ```steps:

  - uses: azure/login@v1
    with:
      creds: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CREDENTIALS }}```

7 replies

Orfeas Kypris

@orphefs

Are there plans for a nektos/act-environments-ubuntu:20.04image? I am currently using nektos/act-environments-ubuntu:18.04 and I believ my workflow is failing because of that on iterative/setup-dvc@v1 with the following message:

::error::Command failed: /usr/bin/sudo apt update && /usr/bin/sudo apt install -y git ./dvc.deb && /usr/bin/sudo rm -f 'dvc.deb'%0A%0AWARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.%0A%0AE: The repository 'https://dl.bintray.com/sbt/debian Release' no longer has a Release file.%0AW: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 23E7166788B63E1E Yarn Packaging yarn@dan.cx%0AW: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://cli-assets.heroku.com/apt ./ InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 6DB5542C356545CF%0AW: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY FEEA9169307EA071 NO_PUBKEY 8B57C5C2836F4BEB%0AW: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt kubernetes-xenial InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY FEEA9169307EA071 NO_PUBKEY 8B57C5C2836F4BEB%0A
[Github action to run tests/Run-tests] ❌ Failure - iterative/setup-dvc@v1

8 replies

1Mark

@1Mark

Hi there,

I'm trying to test a release pipeline. I assumed that $GITHUB_REF would be the name of a tag via repo/releases/new (in github) but I cannot mock this value, I tried using a json file and an env var but I cannot change the value and it keeps using the value of the current branch please assist

DEBU[0076]
context
env
=>
map[ACT:true
AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY:/opt/hostedtoolcache
CI:true
DEBIAN_FRONTEND:noninteractive
DEPLOYMENT_BASEPATH:/opt/runner
GITHUB_ACTION:3
GITHUB_ACTIONS:true
GITHUB_ACTION_REF:
GITHUB_ACTION_REPOSITORY:
GITHUB_ACTOR:nektos/act
GITHUB_API_URL:https://api.github.com
GITHUB_BASE_REF:
GITHUB_ENV:/var/run/act/workflow/envs.txt
GITHUB_EVENT_NAME:release
GITHUB_EVENT_PATH:/var/run/act/workflow/event.json
GITHUB_GRAPHQL_URL:https://api.github.com/graphql
GITHUB_HEAD_REF:
GITHUB_JOB:deploy
GITHUB_PATH:/var/run/act/workflow/paths.txt
GITHUB_REF:refs/heads/fix-versioning
GITHUB_REPOSITORY:1Mark/deeppath
GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER:1Mark
GITHUB_RETENTION_DAYS:0
GITHUB_RUN_ID:1
GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER:1
GITHUB_SERVER_URL:https://github.com
GITHUB_SHA:f103ff118d9db4dabe7eea87b3ec0545d1e63f9e
GITHUB_TOKEN:
GITHUB_WORKFLOW:Upload
Python
Package
GITHUB_WORKSPACE:/home/mark/deeppath
IMAGE_OS:ubuntu20
ImageOS:ubuntu20
LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.2/x64/lib
LSB_OS_VERSION:2004
LSB_RELEASE:20.04
PATH:/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.2/x64/bin:/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.2/x64:/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.2/x64/bin:/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.2/x64:/opt/hostedtoolcache/node/16.14.0/x64/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
RUNNER_PERFLOG:/dev/null
RUNNER_TRACKING_ID:
RUNNER_USER:root
RUN_TOOL_CACHE:/opt/hostedtoolcache
USER:root
pythonLocation:/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.2/x64]

TL;DR how do i set GITHUB_REF:refs/heads/fix-versioning to be a tag value

ReyMichaelFichter

@ReyMichaelFichter

Hey!

I have a problem of act being unable to detect all my workflows.
I have 9 different workflow files, but act -l only lists 3. Why is this?

➜  app git:(act-for-github-actions) ✗ ls .github/workflows
branch.yml                     ci_android.yml                 e2e.yml                        absolute-ci.yml                rebranding_nightly.yml
chromatic.yml                  ci_ios.yml                     eslint_tsc_bot_development.yml mi-ui.yml
➜  app git:(act-for-github-actions) ✗ act -l
Stage  Job ID                Job name                     Workflow name                       Workflow file                   Events
0      chromatic-deployment  chromatic-deployment         Chromatic                           chromatic.yml                   workflow_dispatch,push,pull_request
0      branch_build          branch_build                 Eslint & TSC Bot - Development      eslint_tsc_bot_development.yml  push
0      run                   Compile Language and Commit  Compile Languages for Lokalise PRs  lokalise-ci.yml                 push,workflow_dispatch
➜  app git:(act-for-github-actions) ✗

1 reply

@catthehacker

https://github.blog/2022-03-16-save-time-partial-re-runs-github-actions/

Jonny

@jonny7

Hi, I'm using the head version for node16 support, but getting: panic: reflect: call of reflect.Value.Interface on zero Value when I run act?

2 replies

Merith

@Merith-TK

hey, trying to get act to work, but i keep running into this issue

[build/build-1]   ❗  ::error::Unable to get ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN env variable
[build/build-1]   ❌  Failure - capture build artifacts

I tried passing the GITHUB_ACTIONS token, but it didnt change anything

im trying to set act up in a gitpod environment

working on getting the gitpod environment for https://github.com/hugeblank/allium
to work

its have an issue with this part of the github workflow yml

      - name: capture build artifacts
        if: ${{ runner.os == 'Linux' && matrix.java == '17' }} # Only upload artifacts built from latest java on one OS
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: Artifacts
          path: build/libs/

David Hoffman

@dhoffman-vertex

Trying to use event path, but does not seem to work, am I missing something?

I have

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      environment:
        required: true
        type: choice
        description: Environment to deploy to
        options:
          - dev
          - qa
          - stage
          - prod

and

{
  "action": "workflow_dispatch",
  "inputs": {
    "environment": "dev"
  }
}

1 reply

Alex Harvey

@alexharv074

Hi all, I am using v0.2.24 to work around a bug on Mac OS X as suggested here. https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/935#issuecomment-999707633 When running act, I then get an error, Unexpected value 'uses' referring to a step. Is that because reusable workflows is not supported in 0.2.24?

9 replies

Tyler Thrailkill

@snowe2010

first time using act. it's only finding one of my 5 workflow files though. Unsure what is going wrong here.

❯ act -l
Stage  Job ID       Job name      Workflow name  Workflow file    Events
0      tag-release  Tag release?  Deploy         create-tags.yml  push

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❯ ls ./.github/workflows/
Permissions Size User  Date Modified Git Name
.rw-r--r--  1.4k tyler 15 Feb 10:15   -- create-tags.yml
.rw-r--r--   16k tyler 28 Feb 13:05   -- deploy.yml
.rw-r--r--   879 tyler 21 Mar 13:34   -- destroy-ephemeral-stack-on-close.yml
.rw-r--r--  4.2k tyler 27 Mar 13:30   -- main.yml
.rw-r--r--   524 tyler 21 Mar 13:34   -- remove-labels.yml

does act only support one workflow file?

oleks-popovych

@oleks-popovych

Hi guys!
I'm wondering is it possible to pass GPU into local runner? Ordinary docker supports this, but I do not managed to find any related options in act.

12 replies

David Cunliffe

@2Wdavidcunliffe

Hey all! Glad to see there is a good product and great community behind testing Github Actions Locally! I have an issue which I did attempt to search on but couldn't find anything useful. When I attempt to run my workflow I'm calling a GCP Service Auth in my step which requires a json file to be passed to the action so it can authenticate the environment for workloads in GCP. When I attempt to run the plan without this step it works fine but if I include the step and either attempt to pass a secret via a secret file in a json string format it still fails. Hoping someone has some documentation or could point me in the right direction?

5 replies

Seunghyun Hwang

@lesomnus

Hi, I would like to contribute to implementing a feature 'jobs.ID.container.volumes' to work. Where can I start? It would be appreciate if you could tell me where the code of reading the workflow yaml file and creating a container.

3 replies

Alex Harvey

@alexharv074

Hi all, does anyone know if there is a work around for this? https://github.com/jitterbit/get-changed-files/issues/9#issuecomment-739466748

6 replies

Allison

@allyycatx

Is it possible to use ssh key to checkout a repo using act? I tried passing ssh_key on checkoutv3 but act says "input required and not supplied: token"

1 reply

Alex Harvey

@alexharv074

Hi all, me again! I got past my last issue. Now I am finding that the files in the working directory are not available to nested composite actions, whereas they are when they run in GitHub Actions. I created a Gist to illustrate https://gist.github.com/alexharv074/86a24dcf622c23edd45904849ae37ad8 Any idea what could cause the working directory files to not be available?

5 replies

Maurizio Turatti

@mkjsix

Hi all, I've just installed act on my Mac but nothing happens when I run the command, it just exits immediately without any error or message. Nothing at all.

act -n -v -W .github/workflows/tags.yml
DEBU[0000] Loading environment from /Users/mturatti/src/softinstigate/restheart/.env
DEBU[0000] Loading secrets from /Users/mturatti/src/softinstigate/restheart/.secrets
DEBU[0000] Loading workflow '/Users/mturatti/src/softinstigate/restheart/.github/workflows/tags.yml'
DEBU[0000] Reading workflow '/Users/mturatti/src/softinstigate/restheart/.github/workflows/tags.yml'
DEBU[0000] Planning event: push
DEBU[0000] Loading slug from git directory '/Users/mturatti/src/softinstigate/restheart/.git'
DEBU[0000] Loading revision from git directory '/Users/mturatti/src/softinstigate/restheart/.git'
DEBU[0000] Found revision: 2d3987bcb1fb3a6f2434f500b693f67114ed8602
DEBU[0000] HEAD points to '2d3987bcb1fb3a6f2434f500b693f67114ed8602'
DEBU[0000] using github ref: refs/heads/6.2.x
DEBU[0000] Found revision: 2d3987bcb1fb3a6f2434f500b693f67114ed8602
DEBU[0000] Loading slug from git directory '/Users/mturatti/src/softinstigate/restheart/.git'
DEBU[0000] Loading revision from git directory '/Users/mturatti/src/softinstigate/restheart/.git'
DEBU[0000] Found revision: 2d3987bcb1fb3a6f2434f500b693f67114ed8602
DEBU[0000] HEAD points to '2d3987bcb1fb3a6f2434f500b693f67114ed8602'
DEBU[0000] using github ref: refs/heads/6.2.x
DEBU[0000] Found revision: 2d3987bcb1fb3a6f2434f500b693f67114ed8602
DEBU[0000]

5 replies

Elias Hogstvedt

@CapsAdmin

hello, I'm a bit new to actions and act in general, I'm trying to checkout my own repository using

name: test
on: [push]

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: checkout the project
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: test
        run: find .

but in the test step, there are no files

11 replies

@dl8:matrix.org

[m]

Hi, I've been having a bit of trouble with binding a path from a GHA when calling into a docker container, It seems like the bind is executed against the original machine's filesystem rather than the state inside the docker container

Is there any way to bind a path from the GHA rather than the host machine?

2 replies

I'm trying to run a pipeline that builds an application and then uploads it into s3, and to perform the s3 upload im using the docker image amazon/aws-cli

act exectues within a docker container right?

1 reply

James Mortensen

@jamesmortensen

To the best of my knowledge, act runs inside docker containers, so if you're trying to use docker inside a container, you're more than likely connecting through the docker socket to the host.

@dl8:matrix.org

[m]

basically suppose i have a repository with the file a.java, and the workflow creates bin/a.jar, the bin folder doesnt actually exist on the host, it exists only within the docker container running the workflow

18 replies

however if the workflow includes a command along the lines of docker -v $pwd/bin:/aws amazon/aws-cli s3 cp a.jar s3://somebucket that doesnt work

@dl8:matrix.org

[m]

it somehow messes a bit with the entrypoint, but i think its fine

5 replies

Stephane Moser

@Moser-ss

Hey hey,
I have a situation where I have several workflows in my repository using the same event workflow_call: and I would like to have the capability to select the workflow I want to execute. Is ACT capable of that? from what I saw of the help menu it is only possible to select he job

2 replies

Gabriel Fernandes

@Nosferatu31

Hello,

How can I pass a ECDSA key to act so that I can use it?
It keeps returning invalid format even if I put a ECDSA in my secrets file in a single line

2 replies

Alex Harvey

@alexharv074

@ChristopherHX I wonder if this is another bug, related to passing secrets down multiple nested levels somehow? https://gist.github.com/alexharv074/72f0b9ceb657430cfd3cd95fd63aa350

1 reply

jorgepiloto

@jorgepiloto:matrix.org

[m]

Hi all 👋

My name is Jorge Martínez. I'm an Ansys employee working on a Python library generator named ansys-templates.

This tool generates Python projects which include a Python library, configuration for code style tools and a GitHub Actions YML file. For testing this last file, we are using act. This means, we are executing act in our main CI tomake sure that baked actions file works properly.

However, I see the following output from GH logs:

Error: Unable to process command '[GitHub CI/Code style          ]   ❓  ##[add-matcher]/run/act/actions/actions-setup-python@v2/.github/python.json' successfully.
Error: Could not find a part of the path '/run/act/actions/actions-setup-python@v2/.github/python.json'.
time="2022-04-11T09:29:14Z" level=warning msg="unable to get git repo: section \"remote \\\"origin\\\"\" does not exist"
[GitHub CI/Code style          ]   ✅  Success - Set up Python

Even though those errors are being raise, the "Success - Set up Pyhton" is shown and act works as expected. However, the errors are captured by GitHub which labels the job as failed one.

More information from the logs: https://github.com/pyansys/ansys-templates/actions/runs/2147571852

I am installing act using brew and imposing the following config:

echo "-P ubuntu-latest=ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest" >> ~/.actrc

I've tried with other images but the same error appears on the logs. May you please provide me with some insight about this error?

Thanks for developing and maintaining act! It is really useful and simple to use 🚀

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