actions/checkout@v2 fails on self-hosted RHEL 7 runner with "fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address"

[citnfm]

System Information

• OS Version: RHEL 7.9 (Maipo)
• Git Version: 2.29.2
• Repo Access: Private

Steps to reproduce

1. Install the Github Actions self-hosted runner service on a CentOS/RHEL 7 host.
2. Create a simple workflow to checkout out the repo that initiated the run.

name: Checkout via Github Actions Test
on:
  push:
jobs:
  self-hosted-checkout-test:
    runs-on: self-hosted
    steps:
    # Force a clean up of any files left by a previous run.
    # Required since Actions will not do this for you.
    - name: Clean up files from the previous run
      run: rm -rf ./*

    - name: checkout repo to runner
      uses: actions/checkout@v2

3. Run the workflow.

Result: Error: fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address

Troubleshooting steps taken

• Provide a PAT from a user that has access to the repo using (example below). Same result.

    - name: checkout repo to runner
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_PAT }}

• Cloning the repo manually using a PAT in the workflow. This works.

Any advice on how to make this work or am I stuck using a traditional git clone in my workflow?

[adamevers]

@citnfm did you ever figure this out? I'm facing the same issue.

[y-nk]

same here, not related to the runner tho.

i'm running the traditional ubuntu-latest shared one, still this happening (on push, not clone) ; could it be a git version related issue?