docker action- cannot resolve /github/home

[MrSCM]

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Using GHE Server with self-hosted runners (v 2.309) on Linux; In tryng a couple different unrelated actions from the marketplace that run docker within, the error is generated when running the action: cannot resolve /github/home: lstat /github: no such file or directory..

Is there a way to override the default value of '/github/home'? (Also, we have 'docker' symlinked to podman)

Thank you,

[joshjohanning]

Are you able to paste a (sanitized) copy of the workflow here?

You can turn on debug logging to see the params that are being past to the Docker action for further analysis.

[joshjohanning]

obviously it's failing here

-v "/apps/scmapps/ghe-actions-runner/enterprise-sdr01jen01/_work/_temp/_github_home":"/github/home"

I am not able to re-create the error with a self-hosted runner (although I am using a newer version of the runner). You could attempt to use a newer version of the runner, but I don't think it'll change anything.

curl -o actions-runner-linux-x64-2.317.0.tar.gz -L https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v2.317.0/actions-runner-linux-x64-2.317.0.tar.gz

Also, I'm using the hashicorp org instead and a diff version

      - name: Upload Configuration
        uses: hashicorp/tfc-workflows-github/actions/upload-configuration@v1.3.0
        id: plan-upload
        with:
          workspace: ${{ env.TF_WORKSPACE }}
          directory: ${{ env.CONFIG_DIRECTORY }}
          speculative: true

My output:

/usr/bin/docker run --name hashicorptfciv130_424e62 --label 81ee50 --workdir /github/workspace --rm -e "INPUT_WORKSPACE" -e "INPUT_DIRECTORY" -e "INPUT_SPECULATIVE" -e "INPUT_HOSTNAME" -e "INPUT_TOKEN" -e "INPUT_ORGANIZATION" -e "HOME" -e "GITHUB_JOB" -e "GITHUB_REF" -e "GITHUB_SHA" -e "GITHUB_REPOSITORY" -e "GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER" -e "GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER_ID" -e "GITHUB_RUN_ID" -e "GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER" -e "GITHUB_RETENTION_DAYS" -e "GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT" -e "GITHUB_REPOSITORY_ID" -e "GITHUB_ACTOR_ID" -e "GITHUB_ACTOR" -e "GITHUB_TRIGGERING_ACTOR" -e "GITHUB_WORKFLOW" -e "GITHUB_HEAD_REF" -e "GITHUB_BASE_REF" -e "GITHUB_EVENT_NAME" -e "GITHUB_SERVER_URL" -e "GITHUB_API_URL" -e "GITHUB_GRAPHQL_URL" -e "GITHUB_REF_NAME" -e "GITHUB_REF_PROTECTED" -e "GITHUB_REF_TYPE" -e "GITHUB_WORKFLOW_REF" -e "GITHUB_WORKFLOW_SHA" -e "GITHUB_WORKSPACE" -e "GITHUB_ACTION" -e "GITHUB_EVENT_PATH" -e "GITHUB_ACTION_REPOSITORY" -e "GITHUB_ACTION_REF" -e "GITHUB_PATH" -e "GITHUB_ENV" -e "GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY" -e "GITHUB_STATE" -e "GITHUB_OUTPUT" -e "RUNNER_DEBUG" -e "RUNNER_OS" -e "RUNNER_ARCH" -e "RUNNER_NAME" -e "RUNNER_ENVIRONMENT" -e "RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE" -e "RUNNER_TEMP" -e "RUNNER_WORKSPACE" -e "ACTIONS_RUNTIME_URL" -e "ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN" -e "ACTIONS_CACHE_URL" -e "ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL" -e GITHUB_ACTIONS=true -e CI=true -v "/var/run/docker.sock":"/var/run/docker.sock" -v "/home/josh/actions/actions-runner/_work/_temp/_github_home":"/github/home" -v "/home/josh/actions/actions-runner/_work/_temp/_github_workflow":"/github/workflow" -v "/home/josh/actions/actions-runner/_work/_temp/_runner_file_commands":"/github/file_commands" -v "/home/josh/actions/actions-runner/_work/actions-throwaway/actions-throwaway":"/github/workspace" hashicorp/tfci:v1.3.0 "tfci" "-hostname=" "-token=" "-organization=" "upload" "-workspace=" "-directory=" "-speculative=true"

-v "/home/josh/actions/actions-runner/_work/_temp/_github_home":"/github/home"

[MrSCM]

Tried runner version 2.317.0, same error (btw, we're on GHE 3.11.10).
Any idea how the path '/github/home' is selected to be added as an argument to the docker action?
btw, only have podman 4.9.4, not docker installed, so I have a symlink docker->podman.

[joshjohanning]

As far as I can tell, /github/home is inside the docker container/action image - this is just to mimic the regular GitHub hosted environment. It maps in this and other working directories to the container image. Unsure if you have modified the image with not enough permissions to create or use the directory there?

[MrSCM]

We have not modified the image at all.
I'm thinking that this action is not fully compatible with podman. Podman run does not create the -workingdir if it does not exist, whereas docker run does. I am trying this on RHEL8, and RedHat support for docker is going away in favor of podman. So my symlink from docker to podman, may not be enough?

[MrSCM]

btw, debugging from the command line, replacing the /github/ path in the parameters with /tmp/, I get passed that to another error:
Error: statfs /var/run/docker.sock: no such file or directory.

@joshjohanning have you tried on a RHEL8 host with no docker, just podman? (since RedHat doesn't support docker on RHEL8)

thank you,