Action finishes before nested jobs have started

[wilkerHop]

I have added this job to my workflow:

  create-nested-runners:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Run Multiple GitHub Runners in Runner
        uses: dougcalobrisi/[email protected]
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          runners: 3

and changed each other job runner to nested-${{ github.run_id }}.

This is the create-nested-runners's log:

2022-06-23 19:36:08 INFO     Pulling docker image dougcalobrisi/nested-github-runner:latest
2022-06-23 19:36:37 INFO     Added shared volume /shared:/shared
2022-06-23 19:36:37 INFO     Starting runners
2022-06-23 19:36:37 INFO     Starting runner 0
2022-06-23 19:36:37 INFO     Starting runner 1
2022-06-23 19:36:37 INFO     Starting runner 2
2022-06-23 19:36:38 INFO     Started runner 1 in container eac5653e4cd7f65e9f11af4059d2dc756840d48077b02b1d920706e5634561d7
2022-06-23 19:36:38 INFO     Started runner 0 in container d9d2f9c1f695bfadee4f2f4767e6c8f1d9128f3ed1309a87e64ee064434c53
2022-06-23 19:36:38 INFO     Started runner 2 in container b97bc26816f3b950fe5b8b28646e7e1c018c23d201e903badc29c5c4f53f6017
2022-06-23 19:36:40 ERROR    End of log for container d9d2f9c1f695bfadee4f2f584767e6c8f1d9128f3ed1309a87e64ee064434c53 before proper termination
2022-06-23 19:36:40 ERROR    End of log for container eac5653e4cd7f65e9f11af40d2dc756840d48077b02b1d920706e5634561d7 before proper termination
2022-06-23 19:36:40 ERROR    End of log for container b97bc26816f3b950fe5b8b28646e7e1c018c23d201e903badc29c5c4f53f17 before proper termination

and the others are forever in queue with the message: Requested labels: nested-2551535643.

Am I doing anything wrong?

For more context: https://github.com/wilkerHop/poc-nested-github-runners-action/actions/runs/2552581455

[dougcalobrisi]

This likely occurs because the GitHub Runner failed to start in the containers. Looking at your Workflow, everything looks good - does your GITHUB_TOKEN secret have the proper permissions to create new repository-level runners? If not, the the runners may fail at startup, causing the containers to exit.

I'll look into adding better logging for this soon.

[wilkerHop]

Hey, @dougcalobrisi! I end up forgetting to update the issue.

The problem was indeed the GITHUB_TOKEN permissions.