fails with node related error in act@local

[solsticedhiver]

I am a newbie with github actions, flatpak, and act.

I am trying to run a github actions to build a flatpak with act; i.e running on my machine with docker.

And I get that error about node not being found. Any idea what could be wrong?

flatpak-builder is not a node script but an executable, on my system; is it in your container image ? if so then why do I have that error?

 act -r --rm -j flatpak -W .github/workflows/flatpak.yml 
[flatpak CI/Flatpak] 🚀  Start image=bilelmoussaoui/flatpak-github-actions:gnome-44
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   🐳  docker pull image=bilelmoussaoui/flatpak-github-actions:gnome-44 platform= username= forcePull=true
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   🐳  docker create image=bilelmoussaoui/flatpak-github-actions:gnome-44 platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[]
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   🐳  docker run image=bilelmoussaoui/flatpak-github-actions:gnome-44 platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[]
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   ☁  git clone 'https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-github-actions' # ref=v6.1
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   ☁  git clone 'https://github.com/ncipollo/release-action' # ref=v1
[flatpak CI/Flatpak] ⭐ Run Main actions/checkout@v3
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   🐳  docker cp src=/home/solstice/prog/dvcs/flarte/. dst=/home/solstice/prog/dvcs/flarte
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   ✅  Success - Main actions/checkout@v3
[flatpak CI/Flatpak] ⭐ Run Main Create version
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   🐳  docker exec cmd=[sh -e /var/run/act/workflow/version.sh] user= workdir=
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   ✅  Success - Main Create version
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   ⚙  ::set-output:: version=v0.2.1
[flatpak CI/Flatpak] ⭐ Run Main short sha
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   🐳  docker exec cmd=[sh -e /var/run/act/workflow/short_sha.sh] user= workdir=
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   ✅  Success - Main short sha
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   ⚙  ::set-output:: short_sha=23826ea
[flatpak CI/Flatpak] ⭐ Run Main flatpak/flatpak-github-actions/flatpak-builder@v6.1
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   🐳  docker cp src=/home/solstice/.cache/act/flatpak-flatpak-github-actions-flatpak-builder@v6.1/ dst=/var/run/act/actions/flatpak-flatpak-github-actions-flatpak-builder@v6.1/
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   🐳  docker exec cmd=[node /var/run/act/actions/flatpak-flatpak-github-actions-flatpak-builder@v6.1/flatpak-builder/dist/index.js] user= workdir=
| OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: unable to start container process: exec: "node": executable file not found in $PATH: unknown
[flatpak CI/Flatpak]   ❌  Failure - Main flatpak/flatpak-github-actions/flatpak-builder@v6.1
[flatpak CI/Flatpak] exitcode '126': failure
[flatpak CI/Flatpak] 🏁  Job failed
Error: Job 'Flatpak' failed

[bilelmoussaoui]

flatpak-builder is not a node script but an executable, on my system; is it in your container image ? if so then why do I have that error?

That is true but the action itself is written in NodeJS so it requires node to run it. The runners used by github actions have it pre-installed so we don't have to install anything inside the image itself. It must be some missing feature on act side that doesn't handle nodejs actions properly.

[solsticedhiver]

oh it's just that the docker image they use is just very small, and don't include all the tools of the "real" Github Actions VM/container.

I think I just need to install node. I just installed it with a dnf install nodejs in steps. Never mind