Internal error when manually running the job #25730

gbetous-swir · 2022-01-18T14:00:00Z

gbetous-swir
Jan 18, 2022

Hi,

I created a public repository dedicated to use GitHub action with all I need for my real CI.

I have some basic jobs (simple script that echo “hello” and “goodbye” to a name), and I want to be able to give a list of names (in real CI it will be a list of supported targets, matrix usage) and select which greeting I want (in real CI it will be sanity and nightly tests).

I think I have a working skeleton, but for some reason, the manual tests are not working at all : I’m facing a “GitHub Actions has encountered an internal error when running your job.” error message.

Any idea ?

Thanks a lot,

The repo : GitHub - gbetous-swir/GHActions-demo: Demo of GitHub actions
The error message : Initial commit · gbetous-swir/GHActions-demo@a573fc5 · GitHub

Answered by ChristopherHX

Jan 18, 2022

Hi,

You have been hit by Boolean inputs are not actually booleans · Issue #1483 · actions/runner · GitHub, which ends up assigning string ‘true’ / ‘false’ to a boolean workflow_call parameter => internal server error.

How to fix your workflow?
Cast your workflow_call boolean inputs to actual boolean values.

manual_test:
    name: manual test
    uses: gbetous-swir/GHActions-demo/.github/workflows/jobs.yml@main
    with:
       usernames:  ${{ github.event.inputs.names }}
       hello_job:  ${{ github.event.inputs.hello == 'true' }}
       goodbye_job:  ${{ github.event.inputs.goodbye == 'true' }}

or

manual_test:
    name: manual test
    uses: gbetous-swir/GHActions-demo/.github/workflow…

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ChristopherHX · 2022-01-18T21:03:26Z

ChristopherHX
Jan 18, 2022

Hi,

You have been hit by Boolean inputs are not actually booleans · Issue #1483 · actions/runner · GitHub, which ends up assigning string ‘true’ / ‘false’ to a boolean workflow_call parameter => internal server error.

How to fix your workflow?
Cast your workflow_call boolean inputs to actual boolean values.

manual_test:
    name: manual test
    uses: gbetous-swir/GHActions-demo/.github/workflows/jobs.yml@main
    with:
       usernames:  ${{ github.event.inputs.names }}
       hello_job:  ${{ github.event.inputs.hello == 'true' }}
       goodbye_job:  ${{ github.event.inputs.goodbye == 'true' }}

or

manual_test:
    name: manual test
    uses: gbetous-swir/GHActions-demo/.github/workflows/jobs.yml@main
    with:
       usernames:  ${{ github.event.inputs.names }}
       hello_job:  ${{ fromjson(github.event.inputs.hello) }}
       goodbye_job:  ${{ fromjson(github.event.inputs.goodbye) }}

~~I have no idea how GitHub has blown up their error messages, but I’m shure they had better error messages while reusable workflows were in beta.~~

I sometimes feel like beeing an alpha tester of github.com free for ghes, since reusable workflows beta was more stable than what we test now.

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gbetous-swir · 2022-01-19T08:32:53Z

gbetous-swir
Jan 19, 2022
Author

Thank you very much, this was my issue, it works now 👍

  <a href="https://github.com/gbetous-swir/GHActions-demo/actions/runs/1716982997" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">github.com</a>

FIX booelan issue on manual tests

  <div class="github-info">
    Manual run <span class="github-run-number">#5</span>
  </div>

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