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Can't find 'action.yml', 'action.yaml' or 'Dockerfile' under '/data/workflow_dir/_actions/actions/checkout/v2.4.0'.

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Hi,

For some reason since yesterday, whenever Github Action ran, they’ll failed on the first attempt, but will always succeed on the second attempt.

The error message:

Error: Can't find 'action.yml', 'action.yaml' or 'Dockerfile' under '/data/workflow_dir/_actions/actions/checkout/v2.4.0'. Did you forget to run actions/checkout before running your local action?

Would be lovely if anyone can help, thanks! 😃

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kaleidawavecommented, Jun 7, 2022

Was having the same problem. Looks like it only currently supports it as a whole job rather than in a step. https://github.community/t/actions-reusable-workflow-failing-to-find-action-yml-that-does-exist/231258/3

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homeaidepicommented, Apr 28, 2022

Talking out my problem gave me some inspiration. Finally a breakthrough. So I just added this to the end of my action # Checkout the repo - uses: actions/checkout@v3 with: # Repository name with owner. For example, actions/checkout Default: ${{ github.repository }} So Post Run needs to get connected back with this running actions repo and not whatever repo you connect to perform some external operation. Silly I need to remind the Action what its repo is, (by rechecking out to “this” or “local scope”) but whatever, I got it and hope it helps someone.

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