Maybe an actions checkout bug while running self hosted runner on Windows Server

[tsukuha]

Thanks for looking this issue.
I found an error while running GitHub Actions' actions/checkout.
I expected this error is an actions/checkout's bug, so I want to search about this error.

Reproductions

enviroments

• OS
  Windows Server 2012R
  Microsoft Windows Server 6.3（Build 9600）
• actions versions
  https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/tag/v2.317.0

actions yml

name: SAMPLE

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  check-bats-version:
    runs-on:
      group: SAMPLE
      labels: [JOB]
    steps:
    - name: Checkout repository
      uses: actions/checkout@v4

error log

Run actions/checkout@v4
  with:
    repository: group/repo
    token: ***
    ssh-strict: true
    ssh-user: git
    persist-credentials: true
    clean: true
    sparse-checkout-cone-mode: true
    fetch-depth: 1
    fetch-tags: false
    show-progress: true
    lfs: false
    submodules: false
    set-safe-directory: true
Syncing repository: group/repo
Getting Git version info
  Working directory is 'C:\actions-runner\_work\repo\repo'
Deleting the contents of 'C:\actions-runner\_work\repo\repo'
The repository will be downloaded using the GitHub REST API
To create a local Git repository instead, add Git [2](https://github.com/group/repo/actions/runs/0000000000/job/00000000000#step:2:2).18 or higher to the PATH
Downloading the archive
Writing archive to disk
Extracting the archive
C:\Windows\System[3](https://github.com/group/repo/actions/runs/0000000000/job/00000000000#step:2:3)2\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NoLogo -Sta -NoProfile -NonInteractive -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command "$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop' ; try { Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem } catch { } ; if ((Get-Command -Name Expand-Archive -Module Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive -ErrorAction Ignore)) { Expand-Archive -LiteralPath 'C:\actions-runner\_work\repo\repo\xxxxxxxxx-xxxx-[4](https://github.com/group/repo/actions/runs/0000000000/job/00000000000#step:2:4)xxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.zip' -DestinationPath 'C:\actions-runner\_work\repo\repo\xxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-x[5](https://github.com/group/repo/actions/runs/0000000000/job/00000000000#step:2:5)xx-xxxxxxxxxxxx' -Force } else {[System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory('C:\actions-runner\_work\repo\repo\xxxxxxxxx-xxxx-484[6](https://github.com/group/repo/actions/runs/0000000000/job/00000000000#step:2:6)-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.zip', 'C:\actions-runner\_work\repo\repo\xxx[7](https://github.com/group/repo/actions/runs/0000000000/job/00000000000#step:2:7)xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx', $true) }"
Cannot convert argument "entryNameEncoding", with value: "True", for "ExtractTo
Directory" to type "System.Text.Encoding": "Cannot convert value "True" to type
 "System.Text.Encoding". Error: "Invalid cast from 'System.Boolean' to 'System.
Text.Encoding'.""
At line:1 char:42[8](https://github.com/group/repo/actions/runs/0000000000/job/00000000000#step:2:8)
+ $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop' ; try { Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Comp
res ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordE 
   xception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodArgumentConversionInvalidCastArgument
 
Error: The process 'C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe' failed with exit code 1

description

no reproductive actions/checkout@v4.1.4

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[shyyng]

Hi , do you find any solution ?

[jekru]

Hi , do you find any solution ?

I do not use self-hosted runner on windows but installing git or making it available in the shell (add path variable) should fix this issue since the fallback to the github api should not be used.