config.sh --replace flag is not working

Describe the bug – replace in config.sh setup script is not working

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Have a worker named myworker already configured
2. Run ./config.sh --unattended --url https://mygitserver/myorg --token mytoken --replace --name myworker
3. See it failing

Expected behavior Replace flag should make the config script to overwrite the worker currently present in the api.

Runner Version and Platform

2.277.1 Ubuntu 20.04 X86

What’s not working?

Replace Flag does not behave it should according to ./config.sh --help

...
 --replace              Replace any existing runner with the same name (default false)
...
Examples:
...
Configure a runner non-interactively, replacing any existing runner with the same name:
  ./config.sh --unattended --url <url> --token <token> --replace [--name <name>]
...

Runner and Worker’s Diagnostic Logs

./config.sh --unattended --url https://mygitserver/myorg --token mytoken --replace  --name myworker

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|        ____ _ _   _   _       _          _        _   _                      |
|       / ___(_) |_| | | |_   _| |__      / \   ___| |_(_) ___  _ __  ___      |
|      | |  _| | __| |_| | | | | '_ \    / _ \ / __| __| |/ _ \| '_ \/ __|     |
|      | |_| | | |_|  _  | |_| | |_) |  / ___ \ (__| |_| | (_) | | | \__ \     |
|       \____|_|\__|_| |_|\__,_|_.__/  /_/   \_\___|\__|_|\___/|_| |_|___/     |
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# Runner Registration




A runner with the name myworker already exists.

[f0rkz]

I don’t believe this is actually fixed.

[fhammerl]

👋 Hi @FloThinksPi, thank you for reporting this.

First,

As far as i can tell one also does not get prompted interactively if one wants to replace the runner.

Running config.sh with the --unattended argument will prevent interactive prompts.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Tried to repro on Ubuntu using version 2.227.1. I downloaded the runner two times and configured them one after the other using the same names. The 2nd runner replaced the 1st one without problem. Does it fail for you on a completely new runner as well? I.e, simply after following these steps and configuring them?

# Create a folder
mkdir actions-runner && cd actions-runner
# Download the latest runner package
curl -O -L https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v2.277.1/actions-runner-linux-x64-2.277.1.tar.gz
# Extract the installer
tar xzf ./actions-runner-linux-x64-2.277.1.tar.gz