github actions to release fail

[jurgenvinju]

https://github.com/usethesource/typepal/runs/4189164598?check_suite_focus=true

I'm at a loss here. What is going on? This is the same action we use for other projects.

Run softprops/action-gh-release@v1
  with:
    draft: true
    files: /**/*
    token: ***
  env:
    MAVEN_OPTS: -Xmx4G -Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.2 -Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.log.org.apache.maven.cli.transfer.Slf4jMavenTransferListener=WARN -Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.showDateTime=true -Djava.awt.headless=true
    JAVA_HOME_11.0.13_x64: /opt/hostedtoolcache/jdk/11.0.13/x64
    JAVA_HOME: /opt/hostedtoolcache/jdk/11.0.13/x64
    JAVA_HOME_11_0_13_X64: /opt/hostedtoolcache/jdk/11.0.13/x64
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ***
Error: EACCES: permission denied, scandir '/boot/efi'

[DavyLandman]

Something funky is happening here. I'll does this only happen for his repo? The other ones are fine right?

[jurgenvinju]

That's right.

[DavyLandman]

you could try switching the machine to a different version of ubuntu? else I'll give some debugging a try tomorrow.

[jurgenvinju]

yes that was my next guess too. I'll try that to see if it works

[jurgenvinju]

going down to ubuntu 18 LTS (from 20) did not have any effect.

[DavyLandman]

ok. I'll take this one tomorrow.

[jurgenvinju]

I'm flapping around now in the action file, trying random things that azure documentation or stackoverflow indicates.

[jurgenvinju]

Finally I see what is going wrong:

`files: /**/*`

This means that a variable is resolving to the empty string, namely:

steps.build-artifact.outputs.artifact-root-dir

So that seems to be the problem. The search pattern then starts to browse the entire file system including directories that it does not have access too. Hence the error message.

[jurgenvinju]

that's because it depends on the previous step that was commented out. build-artifact is the id of that previous action step.

[DavyLandman]

Ok, so I gotta repair that step. Thanks.

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