ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip' on github/codeql-action/analyze

[jstoebel]

I'm trying to call github/codeql-action/analyze@v2 in my workflow. It ran fine 5 days ago. When I reran for the same commit today it failed

the failed job

  codeql:
    name: security-scan
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        language: [python]

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Initialize CodeQL
        uses: github/codeql-action/init@v2
        with:
          languages: ${{ matrix.language }}

      - name: Autobuild
        uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@v2

      - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v2

output from the run

/opt/hostedtoolcache/CodeQL/0.0.0-20221123/x64/codeql/codeql version --format=terse
 2.11.4

  /home/runner/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/my-project-SllqOPWN-py3.10/bin/python -c import os; import pip; print(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(pip.__file__)))
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip'
  Error: The process '/home/runner/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/my-project-SllqOPWN-py3.10/bin/python' failed with exit code 1
  Error: The process '/home/runner/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/my-project-SllqOPWN-py3.10/bin/python' failed with exit code 1
      at ExecState._setResult (/home/runner/work/_actions/github/codeql-action/v2/node_modules/@actions/exec/lib/toolrunner.js:592:25)
      at ExecState.CheckComplete (/home/runner/work/_actions/github/codeql-action/v2/node_modules/@actions/exec/lib/toolrunner.js:575:18)
      at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/runner/work/_actions/github/codeql-action/v2/node_modules/@actions/exec/lib/toolrunner.js:469:27)
      at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:390:28)
      at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1064:16)
      at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:301:5)

Happy to submit any other relevant information if anything's missing. Any guidance is appreciated!

[RasmusWL]

Hi @jstoebel, thanks for reporting this problem. I looks like pip has not been installed in your virtual environment, which breaks all my assumptions about how things work 🤔

Looks over the docs for poetry, I see that virtualenvs.options.no-pip = true would probably cause this behavior, so I learned something today as well.

Can you confirm whether your poetry.toml has this option set?

[jstoebel]

@RasmusWL virtualenvs.options.no-pip is not set in my pyproject.toml.

I was able to find a work around however. I was using github/codeql-action/autobuild@v2 to build the project in this job. I removed that and built the project the project the same way I do in other workflows.