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Can't find 'action.yml', 'action.yaml' or 'Dockerfile' under '/data/workflow_dir/_actions/actions/checkout/v2.4.0'.
Hi,
For some reason since yesterday, whenever Github Action ran, they'll failed on the first attempt, but will always succeed on the second attempt.
The error message:
Error: Can't find 'action.yml', 'action.yaml' or 'Dockerfile' under '/data/workflow_dir/_actions/actions/checkout/v2.4.0'. Did you forget to run actions/checkout before running your local action?
Would be lovely if anyone can help, thanks! :)
Additional notes:
I've tried to downgrade the actions/checkout to 2.3.x and 2.2.x, same error messages occured
Any word on this. Lots of people including me are seeing this on post run. My issue stems from what I believe is I connect via checkout@v2 or v3 to a different repo then the action is running under and if I remove the blocks for that everything works so some wires get crossed when you are on a repo in the main action that kicks off the workflow but then inside that workflow you use a different repo and wires get crossed on Post Run, but everything worked in run. Weird: Can't find 'action.yml', 'action.yaml' or 'Dockerfile' Its such a dumb error cause if the action wasnt there it could have never run. Like how the heck CANT a post run find an action that the main run just executed from...
Talking out my problem gave me some inspiration. Finally a breakthrough. So I just added this to the end of my action
# Checkout the repo - uses: actions/checkout@v3 with: # Repository name with owner. For example, actions/checkout Default: ${{ github.repository }}
So Post Run needs to get connected back with this running actions repo and not whatever repo you connect to perform some external operation. Silly I need to remind the Action what its repo is, (by rechecking out to "this" or "local scope") but whatever, I got it and hope it helps someone.
I'm experiencing the same in combination with:
- name: Upload result to GitHub Code Scanning
uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v1
with:
sarif_file: snyk.sarif
Was having the same problem. Looks like it only currently supports it as a whole job rather than in a step. https://github.community/t/actions-reusable-workflow-failing-to-find-action-yml-that-does-exist/231258/3
multi-checkout-action
checkout@v2 should be the first one
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Checkout private actions
uses: vweevers/multi-checkout-action@v1
with:
token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_MACHINE_TOKEN }}
repositories: my-org/example-action my-org/[email protected] my-org/third-action
Was having the same problem. Looks like it only currently supports it as a whole job rather than in a step. https://github.community/t/actions-reusable-workflow-failing-to-find-action-yml-that-does-exist/231258/3
I wish GitHub would keep topics from being deleted (I'm trying to set up my CI and already ran into a handful of dead community links), thankfully the Internet Archive has a copy https://web.archive.org/web/20220427182405/https://github.community/t/actions-reusable-workflow-failing-to-find-action-yml-that-does-exist/231258/3
Was having the same problem. Looks like it only currently supports it as a whole job rather than in a step. https://github.community/t/actions-reusable-workflow-failing-to-find-action-yml-that-does-exist/231258/3
I wish GitHub would keep topics from being deleted (I'm trying to set up my CI and already ran into a handful of dead community links), thankfully the Internet Archive has a copy https://web.archive.org/web/20220427182405/https://github.community/t/actions-reusable-workflow-failing-to-find-action-yml-that-does-exist/231258/3
You are confusing workflows with actions, if you define
- uses inside the steps block is for calling an action (a block of steps)
- uses outside the steps block is for calling a workflow.
it took me hours of to figure out this, thanks @homeaidepi for pointing it out.
In my case I have my composite action, inside the action I checkout to another repo. And it keeps on showing Post Run failed for the action. Then I realized that I need to checkout again to my main repo again (origin repo, where workflow triggered)
@maitrungduc1410 and @homeaidepi THANK YOU for your comments--this worked for me!!!
To reiterate for future readers deep in the rabbit of debugging: in the context of calling a local action ("local" meaning in the same repo as the workflow calling the action, and "action" meaning a composite action, which is different from a reusable workflow), if that action checks out other repos, the runner fails to clean up the original workspace that triggered the workflow. That's because during clean-up, the runner's in the repo the action checked out, so it can no longer find the action file. A workaround to this is to check out the original repo again so that now the runner can clean up the local action.
Failed run:
Notice how the action and post-action `Update Zephyrus' succeeded; it's the original job clean up that failed.
Successful run:
What is the exact solution team i am getting the same error @Sophie1142
What worked for me was to remove the Checkout step from the local action
Hi, I have another solution don't need re-checkout origin source using path of checkout@v3 action and working-directory keyword for run steps.
for ex:
- name: Checkout tools repo
uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
repository: my-org/my-tools
path: my-tools
- name: Install Dependencies
working-directory: my-tools
shell: bash
run: npm install
- name: do something else
shell: bash
working-directory: my-tools
run: |
date > generated.txt
git config user.name github-actions
git config user.email [email protected]
git add .
git commit -m "generated"
git push
Hope it helps you guys!.
For us, the solution was found here https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/26245#discussioncomment-5962450
