Runner (v2.303) not working on AmazonLinux2023 due to missing ICU package

Describe the bug The runner cannot be started due to a missing requirement.

Couldn’t find a valid ICU package installed on the system

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. start a AmazonLinux2023 AMI, for instance ami-00169914e6299b8e0 in eu-west-1
2. download and unpack actions-runner-linux-x64-2.303.0.tar.gz
3. run after config.sh, run.sh and see error

Expected behavior Running runner

Runner Version and Platform

runner-v2.303 AmazonLinux2023

What’s not working?

./run.sh

Libicu's dependencies is missing for Dotnet Core 6.0
Execute sudo ./bin/installdependencies.sh to install any missing Dotnet Core 6.0 dependencies.
Process terminated. Couldn't find a valid ICU package installed on the system. Please install libicu using your package manager and try again. Alternatively you can set the configuration flag System.Globalization.Invariant to true if you want to run with no globalization support. Please see https://aka.ms/dotnet-missing-libicu for more information.
   at System.Environment.FailFast(System.String)
   at System.Globalization.GlobalizationMode+Settings..cctor()
   at System.Globalization.CultureData.CreateCultureWithInvariantData()
   at System.Globalization.CultureData.get_Invariant()
   at System.Globalization.CultureInfo..cctor()
   at System.Globalization.CultureInfo.get_CurrentCulture()
   at System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Init(System.String, System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions, System.TimeSpan, System.Globalization.CultureInfo)
   at System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex..ctor(System.String, System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions, System.TimeSpan, System.Globalization.CultureInfo)
   at System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex..ctor(System.String, System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions)
   at GitHub.Runner.Sdk.RunnerWebProxy..ctor()
   at GitHub.Runner.Common.HostContext..ctor(System.String, System.String)
   at GitHub.Runner.Listener.Program.Main(System.String[])
/tmp/actions-runner/run-helper.sh: line 36:  2220 Aborted                 (core dumped) "$DIR"/bin/Runner.Listener run $*
Exiting with unknown error code: 134
Exiting runner...

[softlberton]

Hi @jalbstmeijer,

I faced the same problem today with an amzn2 linux centos rhel fedora and in order to solve it, I just followed what the error message indicates.

Process terminated. Couldn't find a valid ICU package installed on the system. Please install libicu using your package manager and try again. Alternatively you can set the configuration flag System.Globalization.Invariant to true if you want to run with no globalization support. Please see https://aka.ms/dotnet-missing-libicu for more information.

I did the .NET installation following this link, I don’t think it’s really necessary but try that too:

• Install dotnet

Even after installing dotnet I still got the same error.

But I managed to solve it on the spot by installing the libicu package for centOS, so you should follow these steps:

Please install libicu using your package manager and try again.

1 - You can check if libicu is installed on your operating system:

rpm -q libicu

2 - It’s probably not installed so run this command to install libicu using yum:

yum install libicu -y

3 - After that check again if libicu is installed, you should see something like this:

[root@self-hosted-runner bin]# rpm -q libicu
libicu-50.2-4.amzn2.x86_64

I also followed this link to install libicu: https://yum-info.contradodigital.com/view-package/base/libicu/

I’ve been configuring self-hosted runners for a long time, and today was the first time I received this error, after a bit of research I was able to finish the runner configuration smoothly.

Hope this helps you too, Regards

[jalbstmeijer]

Hi @softlberton

Thank you very much for your feedback. I indeed got it to work after installing the libicu package. I suppose this needs to be fixed/added to bin/installdependencies.sh?

This because projects like https://github.com/machulav/ec2-github-runner expect bin/installdependencies.sh to do it all.

Gr, J