internal-error: the role 'role-xxx' was not found

[papanito]

I use this action to lint stand-alone role and respective playbooks. The linting of the playbooks fails, cause it does not find the role. Hence I provide ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH which seems not to be considered

jobs:
  build:
    name: Ansible lint
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    env:
      ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH: ".:.."
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Lint Ansible Playbook
      uses: ansible/ansible-lint-action@master
      with:
        targets: "**/*.yml"
        override-deps: |
          ansible-lint==5.3.1

This still does not work

+ ansible-lint -v --force-color defaults/main.yml handlers/main.yml meta/main.yml playbook.yml tasks/journald.yml tasks/main.yml tasks/tls.yml tasks/vars_debian_rhel.yml tests/logz.io.yml tests/newrelic.com.yml vars/main.yml
INFO     Using /github/home/.cache/ansible-lint/70343f/roles/papanito.rsyslog symlink to current repository in order to enable Ansible to find the role using its expected full name.
INFO     Added ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH=.:..:/github/home/.cache/ansible-lint/70343f/roles
INFO     Using /github/home/.cache/ansible-lint/70343f/roles/papanito.rsyslog symlink to current repository in order to enable Ansible to find the role using its expected full name.
INFO     Added ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH=.:..:/github/home/.cache/ansible-lint/70343f/roles:/github/home/.cache/ansible-lint/70343f/roles
WARNING  Overriding detected file kind 'yaml' with 'playbook' for given positional argument: tests/logz.io.yml
WARNING  Overriding detected file kind 'yaml' with 'playbook' for given positional argument: tests/newrelic.com.yml
INFO     Executing syntax check on playbook.yml (0.55s)
INFO     Executing syntax check on tests/logz.io.yml (0.56s)
INFO     Executing syntax check on tests/newrelic.com.yml (0.55s)
WARNING  Listing 3 violation(s) that are fatal
internal-error: the role 'ansible-role-rsyslog' was not found in /github/workspace/roles:/github/workspace:/github:/github/home/.cache/ansible-lint/70343f/roles:/github/home/.cache/ansible-lint/70343f/roles:/github/workspace
playbook.yml:14:7 [WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that
the implicit localhost does not match 'all'
ERROR! the role 'ansible-role-rsyslog' was not found in /github/workspace/roles:/github/workspace:/github:/github/home/.cache/ansible-lint/70343f/roles:/github/home/.cache/ansible-lint/70343f/roles:/github/workspace

The error appears to be in '/github/workspace/playbook.yml': line 14, column 7, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

  roles:
    - ansible-role-rsyslog
      ^ here

On my local machine - using the same ansible-lint version, I don't have this issue:

ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH=..:. ansible-lint -v --force-color defaults/main.yml handlers/main.yml meta/main.yml playbook.yml tasks/journald.yml tasks/main.yml tasks/tls.yml tasks/vars_debian_rhel.yml tests/logz.io.yml
INFO     Using /home/aedu/.cache/ansible-lint/124697/roles/papanito.rsyslog symlink to current repository in order to enable Ansible to find the role using its expected full name.
INFO     Added ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH=..:.:/home/aedu/.cache/ansible-lint/124697/roles
INFO     Using /home/aedu/.cache/ansible-lint/124697/roles/papanito.rsyslog symlink to current repository in order to enable Ansible to find the role using its expected full name.
INFO     Added ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH=..:.:/home/aedu/.cache/ansible-lint/124697/roles:/home/aedu/.cache/ansible-lint/124697/roles
WARNING  Overriding detected file kind 'yaml' with 'playbook' for given positional argument: tests/logz.io.yml
INFO     Executing syntax check on playbook.yml (2.36s)
INFO     Executing syntax check on tests/logz.io.yml (2.41s)

[cmagone]

I have this issue as well if I try to use an ansible-lint version greater than 5.3.x

[mhdan]

I have this issue as well if I try to use an ansible-lint version greater than 5.3.x

any updates about this issue?
I have this problem too. :(

[ssbarnea]

Please try v6, we just release it.