need help troubleshooting workflow

[shahzebsiddiqui]

I need help troubleshooting this workflow which depends on action/checkout

workflow: https://github.com/buildtesters/buildtest/runs/4257276971?check_suite_focus=true
PR: buildtesters/buildtest#930
workflow file: https://github.com/buildtesters/buildtest/blob/devel/.github/workflows/regressiontest_docker.yml

Error message is the following you can find it at https://github.com/buildtesters/buildtest/runs/4257276971?check_suite_focus=true#step:4:1

Run actions/checkout@v2
/usr/bin/docker exec  b3d770ebc235553a7ae12857a93d7d4526b89bf70b390af80228408f29f79ea8 sh -c "cat /etc/*release | grep ^ID"
Syncing repository: buildtesters/buildtest
Getting Git version info
Deleting the contents of '/__w/buildtest/buildtest'
The repository will be downloaded using the GitHub REST API
To create a local Git repository instead, add Git 2.18 or higher to the PATH
Downloading the archive
(node:37) [DEP0005] DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues. Please use the Buffer.alloc(), Buffer.allocUnsafe(), or Buffer.from() methods instead.
Writing archive to disk
Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/__w/buildtest/buildtest/34ba7d3c-6df7-47d9-af5e-0a8a61034ecc.tar.gz'

objective: i want to run regression test in container however issue i see is that container is being launched in way that is not sourcing startup script i.e /etc/profile. The PR i did was to ensure this gets added and added to ~/.bashrc.

The issue i have right now is that the base container is ubuntu 18.04 which is git 2.17.1 and this causes issue because i need git 2.18 to download the project and container is readonly for some reason. I have a git instance in the container which I am able to use.

I would appreciate some help troubleshooting this problem as it relates to this checkout action.

[shahzebsiddiqui]

@ericsciple can you please help.

i was able to make some progress now and get my version of git upgraded inside container after some trial and error (buildtesters/buildtest#944) but now i am running into a different error which looks like it fails to remove the .git directory. I was debugging this and the default user for container is spack though i dont know what user is used when running the checkout step when using the container field.

I am working on this PR: buildtesters/buildtest#945

/usr/bin/docker exec  6310573b5fe42be8e05a1713798cec39164e39cdd9d732295b00219ac1363878 sh -c "cat /etc/*release | grep ^ID"
Syncing repository: buildtesters/buildtest
Getting Git version info
  Working directory is '/__w/buildtest/buildtest'
  /usr/bin/git version
  git version 2.34.1
Deleting the contents of '/__w/buildtest/buildtest'
Initializing the repository
  /usr/bin/git init /__w/buildtest/buildtest
  /__w/buildtest/buildtest/.git: Permission denied
  Error: The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 1

I am looking at this line https://github.com/buildtesters/buildtest/runs/4453345566?check_suite_focus=true#step:2:79 which attempts to create a bind mount -v "/home/runner/work":"/__w" which should be read write unless i am mistaken.

  /usr/bin/docker create --name 130ac69e5f4546fba197b04fc01ad04a_ghcriobuildtestersbuildtest_spack_b6cf5f --label 6a6825 --workdir /__w/buildtest/buildtest --network github_network_7953249b22b64684b4281afe73c3e356 -u spack -e "HOME=/github/home" -e GITHUB_ACTIONS=true -e CI=true -v "/var/run/docker.sock":"/var/run/docker.sock" -v "/home/runner/work":"/__w" -v "/home/runner/runners/2.285.1/externals":"/__e":ro -v "/home/runner/work/_temp":"/__w/_temp" -v "/home/runner/work/_actions":"/__w/_actions" -v "/opt/hostedtoolcache":"/__t" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_github_home":"/github/home" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_github_workflow":"/github/workflow" --entrypoint "tail" ghcr.io/buildtesters/buildtest_spack "-f" "/dev/null"

I would appreciate some assistance on this. I have been looking at few examples online and there hasn't been one that works. A few i have looked at are

https://github.com/gitpod-io/dockerfreeze/blob/master/.github/workflows/shell.yml
https://dev.to/mihinduranasinghe/using-docker-containers-in-jobs-github-actions-3eof

I would like to run arbitrary shell script inside the container. The main purpose is to run my regression suite (pytest + coverage) inside container but this has been more trouble then i expected. I would have expected github would have documented this in https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions which they already do for container property but in practice one has to use the checkout action for the workflow