checkout@v3 using node20 instead of node16

[jcooke-impinj]

Running on rhel7 with self-hosted runners and starting today we're running into issues where @V3 is using node20 instead of node16.
Happening on runner versions 2.316.1 and 2.317.0.
Oddly some of our Repos don't run into this issue when executing checkout@v3 on the same runners.

Run actions/checkout@v3
/ci_storage_agent_1/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node: /lib64/libm.so.6: version GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /ci_storage_agent_1/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node) /ci_storage_agent_1/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found (required by /ci_storage_agent_1/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node)
/ci_storage_agent_1/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version CXXABI_1.3.9' not found (required by /ci_storage_agent_1/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node) /ci_storage_agent_1/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not found (required by /ci_storage_agent_1/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node)
/ci_storage_agent_1/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node: /lib64/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by /ci_storage_agent_1/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node) /ci_storage_agent_1/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node: /lib64/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by /ci_storage_agent_1/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node)

[jcooke-impinj]

Our team found that setting these before starting the runners get's things going again. Still unsure what's causing this.

export ACTIONS_RUNNER_FORCED_INTERNAL_NODE_VERSION=node16
export ACTIONS_RUNNER_FORCE_ACTIONS_NODE_VERSION=node16

[adpaco-aws]

This doesn't seem to be specific to actions/checkout@v3 since we tried to upgrade to actions/checkout@v4 (here) and got the same failure (here).

[biswalc]

I am having the same issue while running below versions, on ubuntu 20.04 VM:

actions/checkout@v3.6.0
actions/checkout@v3
actions/checkout@v4
actions/checkout@v4.1.7

Error:

/__e/node20/bin/node: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by /__e/node20/bin/node)

Issue started today, i.e. 3 Jul 10am PDT.

[junghyun-apr]

Hello! Our development team is also experiencing the same issue. We are using AWS instances as self-hosted.
We temporarily resolved the issue by simply changing the node16 directory to node20 in the same path. 🥲

AWS AMI :

amzn2-ami-kernel-5.10-hvm-2.0.20240223.0-x86_64-gp2

Git Action Error :

/home/ec2-user/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node: /lib64/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /home/ec2-user/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node)
/home/ec2-user/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by /home/ec2-user/actions-runner/externals/node20/bin/node)

[GuyAv46]

Following this blog post: https://github.blog/changelog/2024-03-07-github-actions-all-actions-will-run-on-node20-instead-of-node16-by-default/
Adding this to the envs that require node16 fixed the issue

ACTIONS_ALLOW_USE_UNSECURE_NODE_VERSION=true

[Flamefire]

Our team found that setting these before starting the runners get's things going again. Still unsure what's causing this.

export ACTIONS_RUNNER_FORCED_INTERNAL_NODE_VERSION=node16
export ACTIONS_RUNNER_FORCE_ACTIONS_NODE_VERSION=node16

I tried setting this inside a workflow running on GH hosted runners and it didn't work.
So it looks like this only works when the runner itself was started with those set, i.e. you cannot set them for a running runner which includes the GH hosted ones.

This doesn't seem to be specific to actions/checkout@v3 since we tried to upgrade to actions/checkout@v4 (here) and got the same failure (here).

v4 always used Node 20

I am having the same issue while running below versions, on ubuntu 20.04 VM:

actions/checkout@v3.6.0
actions/checkout@v3
actions/checkout@v4
actions/checkout@v4.1.7

See above

[david-batranu]

Fixed by renaming the node20 folder and symlinking node16 to node20:

cd $RUNNER_HOME/actions-runner/externals
mv node20 node20.bak
ln -s node16 node20

[eshogo]

I tried modifying /home/runner/actions-runner/.env and env.sh and it works fine.

% cat .env
ACTIONS_RUNNER_FORCED_INTERNAL_NODE_VERSION=node16
ACTIONS_RUNNER_FORCE_ACTIONS_NODE_VERSION=node16

and adding their environment variables into 'varCheckList' array in env.sh.
(not needed?)

varCheckList=(
    'LANG'
    'JAVA_HOME'
    'ANT_HOME'
    'M2_HOME'
    'ANDROID_HOME'
    'ANDROID_SDK_ROOT'
    'GRADLE_HOME'
    'NVM_BIN'
    'NVM_PATH'
    'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'
    'PERL5LIB'
    'ACTIONS_RUNNER_FORCED_INTERNAL_NODE_VERSION'
    'ACTIONS_RUNNER_FORCE_ACTIONS_NODE_VERSION'
    )

Then restart runner service

% systemctl restart github-actions-runner.service

[david-batranu]

Looks like this is happening because of: https://github.blog/changelog/2024-03-07-github-actions-all-actions-will-run-on-node20-instead-of-node16-by-default/