split of undefined in firepit-log.txt when using binary within js Github Actions

[REQUIRED] Environment info

firebase-tools: 8.4.3

Platform: Ubuntu

[REQUIRED] Test case

Downloading the firebase-tools binary as per the instructions in the docs and trying to call within a custom js Github Action:

import * as core from '@actions/core';
import * as exec from '@actions/exec';

/**
 * Run deploy command by downloading firebase-tools binary
 */
async function run() {
  const firebaseBinaryPath = `${process.env.GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/firebase_bin`;
  // Download firebase-tools binary
  await exec.exec('curl', [
    '-Lo',
    firebaseBinaryPath,
    'https://firebase.tools/bin/linux/v8.4.3',
  ]);
  core.info(`Downloaded firebase binary, making executable`);

  // Make binary executable
  await exec('chmod', ['+x', firebaseBinaryPath]);
  core.info(`Chmod successful, adding to cache dir`);

  // Use firebase-tools binary to trigger deploy
  await exec.exec(firebaseBinaryPath, [
    'deploy',
    '--only',
    'functions',
    '--project',
    'some-project',
  ]);
}

run().catch((err) => {
  console.error('Error:', err);
  core.setFailed(err.message);
});

Produces: This tool has encountered an error. Please file a bug on Github (https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/) and include firepit-log.txt

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

Use the above logic in a custom github action attempts to run the following command:

/home/runner/work/fireadmin/fireadmin/firebase_bin deploy --only functions --project fireadmin-stage

NOTE that /home/runner/work/fireadmin/fireadmin is the GITHUB_WORKSPACE for a project named fireadmin (apologies for confusing name)

This also happens when calling without the --only flag

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

I would expect that calling the binary works in all environments - this same logic works when running on my mac and downloading the binary from https://firebase.tools/bin/macos/v8.4.3.

I also would expect to be able to get a debug log if passing --debug, but it seems like that logic is never being run since no debug logs trigger, and there is no firebase-debug.log file created

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

Welcome to firepit v1.1.0!
Doing JSON parses for version checks at /snapshot/firepit/vendor/node_modules/firebase-tools/package.json
JSONStream,abort-controller,accepts,agent-base,ajv,ansi-align,ansi-escapes,ansi-regex,ansi-styles,ansicolors,anymatch,archiver,archiver-utils,argparse,array-flatten,arrify,as-array,asn1,assert-plus,async,async-each,asynckit,aws-sign2,aws4,balanced-match,base64-js,basic-auth,basic-auth-connect,bcrypt-pbkdf,big-integer,bignumber.js,binary,binary-extensions,bl,bluebird,body-parser,boxen,brace-expansion,braces,buffer,buffer-crc32,buffer-equal-constant-time,buffer-indexof-polyfill,buffers,bytes,camelcase,capture-stack-trace,cardinal,caseless,chainsaw,chalk,char-spinner,chardet,chokidar,chownr,ci-info,cjson,cli-boxes,cli-color,cli-cursor,cli-spinners,cli-table,cli-width,clone,color,color-convert,color-name,color-string,colornames,colors,colorspace,combined-stream,commander,compare-semver,compress-commons,compressible,compression,concat-map,configstore,connect,connect-query,content-disposition,content-type,cookie,cookie-signature,core-util-is,crc,crc32-stream,create-error-class,cross-env,cross-spawn,crypto-random-string,csv-streamify,d,dashdash,debug,deep-extend,deep-is,defaults,delayed-stream,depd,destroy,diagnostics,dot-prop,dotenv,duplexer2,duplexer3,duplexify,ecc-jsbn,ecdsa-sig-formatter,ee-first,enabled,encodeurl,end-of-stream,env-variable,es5-ext,es6-iterator,es6-symbol,es6-weak-map,escape-html,escape-string-regexp,esprima,etag,event-emitter,event-target-shim,execa,exit-code,express,ext,extend,external-editor,extsprintf,fast-deep-equal,fast-json-stable-stringify,fast-safe-stringify,fast-text-encoding,fast-url-parser,fecha,figures,filesize,fill-range,finalhandler,firebase-tools,flat-arguments,forever-agent,form-data,forwarded,fresh,fs-constants,fs-extra,fs-minipass,fs.realpath,fstream,gaxios,gcp-metadata,get-stream,getpass,glob,glob-parent,glob-slash,glob-slasher,global-dirs,google-auth-library,google-gax,google-p12-pem,got,graceful-fs,gtoken,har-schema,har-validator,has-ansi,has-flag,home-dir,http-errors,http-signature,https-proxy-agent,iconv-lite,ieee754,import-lazy,imurmurhash,inflight,inherits,ini,inquirer,ip-regex,ipaddr.js,is-arrayish,is-binary-path,is-ci,is-extglob,is-fullwidth-code-point,is-glob,is-installed-globally,is-npm,is-number,is-obj,is-path-inside,is-promise,is-redirect,is-retry-allowed,is-stream,is-stream-ended,is-typedarray,is-url,is-wsl,is2,isarray,isexe,isstream,jju,join-path,js-yaml,jsbn,json-bigint,json-parse-helpfulerror,json-schema,json-schema-traverse,json-stringify-safe,jsonfile,jsonparse,jsonschema,jsonwebtoken,jsprim,jwa,jws,klaw,kuler,latest-version,lazystream,leven,listenercount,lodash,lodash._isnative,lodash._objecttypes,lodash._shimkeys,lodash.at,lodash.camelcase,lodash.defaults,lodash.difference,lodash.flatten,lodash.has,lodash.includes,lodash.isarguments,lodash.isboolean,lodash.isinteger,lodash.isnumber,lodash.isobject,lodash.isplainobject,lodash.isstring,lodash.keys,lodash.once,lodash.snakecase,lodash.toarray,lodash.union,lodash.values,log-symbols,logform,long,lowercase-keys,lru-cache,lru-queue,make-dir,marked,marked-terminal,media-typer,memoizee,merge-descriptors,methods,mime,mime-db,mime-types,mimic-fn,minimatch,minimist,minipass,minizlib,mkdirp,morgan,ms,mute-stream,nash,negotiator,next-tick,nice-try,node-emoji,node-fetch,node-forge,normalize-path,npm-run-path,oauth-sign,on-finished,on-headers,once,one-time,onetime,open,ora,os-tmpdir,p-defer,p-finally,package-json,parseurl,path-is-absolute,path-is-inside,path-key,path-to-regexp,performance-now,picomatch,pify,plist,portfinder,prepend-http,process-nextick-args,progress,protobufjs,proxy-addr,pseudomap,psl,punycode,qs,range-parser,raw-body,rc,readable-stream,readdirp,redeyed,registry-auth-token,registry-url,request,restore-cursor,retry-request,rimraf,router,rsvp,run-async,rxjs,safe-buffer,safer-buffer,semver,semver-diff,send,serve-static,setimmediate,setprototypeof,shebang-command,shebang-regex,signal-exit,simple-swizzle,sprintf-js,sshpk,stack-trace,statuses,stream-shift,string-length,string-width,string_decoder,strip-ansi,strip-eof,strip-json-comments,superstatic,supports-color,supports-hyperlinks,tar,tar-stream,tcp-port-used,term-size,text-hex,through,through2,timed-out,timers-ext,tmp,to-regex-range,toidentifier,tough-cookie,toxic,traverse,triple-beam,try-require,tslib,tunnel-agent,tweetnacl,type,type-is,typedarray-to-buffer,unique-string,universal-analytics,unpipe,unzip-response,unzipper,update-notifier,uri-js,url-join,url-parse-lax,util-deprecate,utils-merge,uuid,valid-url,vary,verror,walkdir,wcwidth,which,widest-line,winston,winston-transport,wrappy,write-file-atomic,ws,xdg-basedir,xmlbuilder,xmldom,xtend,yallist,zip-stream,@google-cloud,@grpc,@protobufjs,@types
No existing firebase-tools install found.
Installed ft@none and packaged ft@8.4.3
Legacy firepit / firebase-tools detected, clearing it out...

Checking for npm/bin/npm-cli install at /home/runner/.cache/firebase/tools/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli
Checking for npm/bin/npm-cli install at /home/runner/.cache/firebase/tools/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli
Checking for npm/bin/npm-cli install at /snapshot/firepit/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli
Found npm/bin/npm-cli install.
Checking for npm/bin/npm-cli install at /home/runner/.cache/firebase/tools/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli
Checking for npm/bin/npm-cli install at /home/runner/.cache/firebase/tools/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli
Checking for npm/bin/npm-cli install at /snapshot/firepit/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli
Found npm/bin/npm-cli install.
Runtime binaries created.
/home/runner/work/fireadmin/fireadmin/firebase_bin
/home/runner/work/fireadmin/fireadmin/firebase_bin,/snapshot/firepit/firepit.js,deploy,--only,functions:indexUser,--project,fireadmin-stage
Checking for npm/bin/npm-cli install at /home/runner/.cache/firebase/tools/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli
Checking for npm/bin/npm-cli install at /home/runner/.cache/firebase/tools/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli
Checking for npm/bin/npm-cli install at /snapshot/firepit/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli
Found npm/bin/npm-cli install.
Checking for npm/bin/npm-cli install at /home/runner/.cache/firebase/tools/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli
Checking for npm/bin/npm-cli install at /home/runner/.cache/firebase/tools/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli
Checking for npm/bin/npm-cli install at /snapshot/firepit/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli
Found npm/bin/npm-cli install.
Runtime binaries created.
TypeError: Cannot read property 'split' of undefined

The only two places I saw split in firepit was

• this line which splits result, but that seems to be defined as “” above
• this line which uses PATH, but that seems to be defined in this environment

[samtstern]

@prescottprue thanks for the detailed bug! Assigning to @abeisgoat who does all things Firepit

[abeisgoat]

This should have been resolved awhile ago with a bunch of other installer fixes, please reopen if it still exists.