Missing GITHUB_EVENT_PATH GITHUB Self_hosted_runner

[avinashsi]

I am observing the following error with one in self hosted runner using docker in docker.

Describe the bug
The /github/workflow folder exists, but whatever process is supposed to be adding the event.json
event data doesn't appear to be happening.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
The issue is specifically with the following actions:
mb2dev/github-action-comment-pull-request@1.0.0

It ends up giving this following error
GITHUB_EVENT_PATH /github/workflow/event.json does not exist Error: No pull request found.

Expected behavior
The task runs without error and generates my env variables

Runner Version and Platform

GH_RUNNER_VERSION=2.286.1

OS of the machine running the runner?
ubuntu:20.04

What's not working?

Please include error messages and screenshots.

Job Log Output

Run mb2dev/github-action-comment-pull-request@1.0.0 with: message: Docker image created for this PR: UL-10353_gh-self-hosted-f8dfd51GITHUB_TOKEN: *** env: IMAGE_NAME: eu.gcr.io/XXXXXXXX[2](https://github.com/XXXXXX/XXXXXXX/runs/XXXXXXXX?check_suite_focus=true#step:7:2)14/XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX /usr/bin/docker run --name e5d445f1dcbebb98b4f48bf55458[3](https://github.com/XXXXXXX/XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX/runs/XXXXXXX?check_suite_focus=true#step:7:3)a83d7a6[4](https://github.com/XXXXXXX/XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX/runs/XXXXXXX?check_suite_focus=true#step:7:4)_0[5](https://github.com/XXXXXXX/XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX/runs/XXXXXXX?check_suite_focus=true#step:7:5)e183 --label 7e5d44 --workdir /github/workspace --rm -e IMAGE_NAME -e INPUT_MESSAGE -e INPUT_GITHUB_TOKEN -e INPUT_REACTIONS -e HOME -e GITHUB_JOB -e GITHUB_REF -e GITHUB_SHA -e GITHUB_REPOSITORY -e GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER -e GITHUB_RUN_ID -e GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER -e GITHUB_RETENTION_DAYS -e GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT -e GITHUB_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_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 RUNNER_OS -e RUNNER_ARCH -e RUNNER_NAME -e RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE -e RUNNER_TEMP -e RUNNER_WORKSPACE -e ACTIONS_RUNTIME_URL -e ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN -e ACTIONS_CACHE_URL -e ACTIONS_ID_TOKEN_REQUEST_URL -e ACTIONS_ID_TOKEN_REQUEST_TOKEN -e GITHUB_ACTIONS=true -e CI=true -v "/var/run/docker.sock":"/var/run/docker.sock" -v "/home/actions/_work/_temp/_github_home":"/github/home" -v "/home/actions/_work/_temp/_github_workflow":"/github/workflow" -v "/home/actions/_work/_temp/_runner_file_commands":"/github/file_commands" -v "/home/actions/_work/XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX/XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX":"/github/workspace" 7e5d44:5f1dcbebb98b4f48bf554583a83d7a[6](https://github.com/XXXXXXX/XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX/runs/6291362735?check_suite_focus=true#step:7:6)4 "Docker image created for this PR: XXXXXXX-branch-self-hosted-f8dfd51" "***" "" [@octokit/rest] const Octokit = require("@octokit/rest")is deprecated. Useconst { Octokit } = require("@octokit/rest") instead GITHUB_EVENT_PATH /github/workflow/event.json does not exist Error: No pull request found.

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[nikola-jokic]

Hey @avinashsi,

Can you please provide an example workflow, so we can reproduce this issue?

[brianjmurrell]

I'm experiencing this also, but to be clear, it only happens on my self-hosted runners that use a remote docker daemon. Here's a workflow that reproduces it: https://github.com/daos-stack/daos/blob/aef3e986b0f123bb46384c365c94c3780947b228/.github/workflows/ci2.yml and it's the Build-and-test job that does it, specifically in the Publish NLT test results step using EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action@v1. You can see how it fails here: https://github.com/daos-stack/daos/actions/runs/3385239884/jobs/5623975314

[brianjmurrell]

So in my case, this is precisely because I am using a remote docker daemon with my runners. Bind mounts (i.e. -v "/lcl_home/gha_runner/actions-runner/_work/_temp/_github_home":"/github/home" -v "/lcl_home/gha_runner/actions-runner/_work/_temp/_github_workflow":"/github/workflow" -v "/lcl_home/gha_runner/actions-runner/_work/_temp/_runner_file_commands":"/github/file_commands" -v "/lcl_home/gha_runner/actions-runner/_work/daos/daos":"/github/workspace") simply don't work to bind mount from the GH runner across the network to the remote docker daemon. What the remote docker daemon actually does is bind mounts those dirs on it's machine into the container.

The TL;DR: of all of this is that you probably cannot for all practical purposes run your GHA runners and docker deamon on separate hosts, right? Seems awfully wasteful that each runner host has to self-contain it's docker daemon and it's cache and the entire runner farm cannot benefit from a single global docker cache on a remote docker daemon. Am I misunderstanding?

[charujain12]

i got the same issue on self-hosted runner.
my workflow as below

name: autoupdate
on:
  push: {}
jobs:
  autoupdate:
    name: autoupdate
    runs-on: [self-hosted, small-mem2]
    steps:
      - name: Inspect Environment Variables
        run: env

      - name: Auto update
        uses: docker://chinthakagodawita/autoupdate-action:v1

        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          DRY_RUN: 'false'
          PR_FILTER: 'auto_merge'
          PR_READY_STATE: 'ready_for_review'
          MERGE_MSG: 'Branch was auto-updated.'
          MERGE_CONFLICT_ACTION: 'fail'

i got below error

/usr/bin/docker run --name chinthakagodawitaautoupdateactionv1_fe197c --label c3f261 --workdir /github/workspace --rm -e "GITHUB_TOKEN" -e "DRY_RUN" -e "PR_FILTER" -e "PR_READY_STATE" -e "MERGE_MSG" -e "MERGE_CONFLICT_ACTION" -e "HOME" -e "GITHUB_JOB" -e "GITHUB_REF" -e "GITHUB_SHA" -e "GITHUB_REPOSITORY" -e "GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER" -e "GITHUB_RUN_ID" -e "GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER" -e "GITHUB_RETENTION_DAYS" -e "GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT" -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_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_OS" -e "RUNNER_ARCH" -e "RUNNER_NAME" -e "RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE" -e "RUNNER_TEMP" -e "RUNNER_WORKSPACE" -e "ACTIONS_RUNTIME_URL" -e "ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN" -e "ACTIONS_CACHE_URL" -e GITHUB_ACTIONS=true -e CI=true -v "/var/run/docker.sock":"/var/run/docker.sock" -v "/home/_temp/_github_home":"/github/home" -v "/home/_temp/_github_workflow":"/github/workflow" -v "/home/_temp/_runner_file_commands":"/github/file_commands" -v "/home/sol-project/sol-project":"/github/workspace" chinthakagodawita/autoupdate-action:v1
GITHUB_EVENT_PATH /github/workflow/event.json does not exist
GITHUB_EVENT_PATH /github/workflow/event.json does not exist
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/github/workflow/event.json'

i inspected my env and i found my GITHUB_EVENT_PATH which is different.
GITHUB_EVENT_PATH=/home/_temp/_github_workflow/event.json

please help me to resolve this issue.

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[koen-venly]

Same issue here on self-hosted runners. Only difference is that I'm using superlinter.
But I'm getting the same results:
2023-12-18 12:26:55 [INFO] Successfully found:[GITHUB_WORKSPACE], value:[/github/workspace]
2023-12-18 12:26:55 [INFO] Successfully found:[GITHUB_EVENT_PATH], value:[/github/workflow/event.json]
/action/lib/linter.sh: line 550: /github/workflow/event.json: No such file or directory
2023-12-18 12:26:55 [ERROR] Failed to get [GITHUB_ORG]!
2023-12-18 12:26:55 [FATAL] []

[koen-venly]

Other actions to that use this... Like for the slack notifications:
cat: can't open '//workflow/event.json': No such file or directory
cat: can't open '//workflow/event.json': No such file or directory
Message is required

[Lance-DC]

Same issue here on self-hosted runners. Only difference is that I'm using superlinter. But I'm getting the same results: 2023-12-18 12:26:55 [INFO] Successfully found:[GITHUB_WORKSPACE], value:[/github/workspace] 2023-12-18 12:26:55 [INFO] Successfully found:[GITHUB_EVENT_PATH], value:[/github/workflow/event.json] /action/lib/linter.sh: line 550: /github/workflow/event.json: No such file or directory 2023-12-18 12:26:55 [ERROR] Failed to get [GITHUB_ORG]! 2023-12-18 12:26:55 [FATAL] []

I am also seeing this same problem with Super-linter.