checkout: Duplicate name in working directory during checkout

Hello. I’m having some troubles using actions/checkout@v2 on a self-hosted runner. Here’s the current yaml file:

name: Test Pipeline

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - '**'

jobs:
  RunUnitTests:
    runs-on: self-hosted
    steps:
      - name: Checkout Repo
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

Workflow logs:

Run actions/checkout@v2
  with:
    repository: org/test-ui
    token: ***
    ssh-strict: true
    persist-credentials: true
    clean: true
    fetch-depth: 1
    lfs: false
    submodules: false
Error: An error occurred trying to start process '/home/runner/externals/node12/bin/node' with working directory '/home/runner/_work/test-ui/test-ui'. No such file or directory

The name “test-ui” is duplicated on the working directory. I’d like to know what could’ve caused this issue (is it possible that the runner is interfering?), and what steps can I take to resolve it. Thanks in advance.

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Created 2 years ago
Comments: 23

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hi… run scrips…

jbaryy708 on Apr 27, 2023

I just experienced this issue as well in the Build step below but was able to get around it by explicitly specifying my working_directory.

jobs:

  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    ...

    env:
      PROJECT_PATH: <relative-path-to-project-directory>

    steps:

      - name: Checkout Repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      ...

      - name: Build
        run: go build -v ./...
        working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}/${{ env.PROJECT_PATH }}

      ...

camronkhan on Mar 4, 2023

i solved this by making the actions/checkout the first step of the job

Tpleme on Jan 26, 2024