action-automatic-releases broken - UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: HttpError: Resource not accessible by integration

This was working as expected until a few weeks ago, now when trying to use the action the following error occurs:

Generating changelog
  Error: Resource not accessible by integration
  (node:1865) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: HttpError: Resource not accessible by integration
      at /home/runner/work/_actions/marvinpinto/action-automatic-releases/latest/dist/index.js:1:361954
      at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
  (node:1865) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
  (node:1865) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

Perhaps JS is trying to read from a variable or file that doesn’t exist?

---

This is being called in my workflow as follows:

  - name: Download Example Artifact
    uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
    with:
      name: "hello-world"

  - name: Create Github Release With Example Artifact
    uses: marvinpinto/action-automatic-releases@latest
    with:
      repo_token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
      prerelease: true
      automatic_release_tag: "${{ steps.calver.outputs.release }}-${{ github.run_id }}"
      files: |
        "hello-world.zip"

[marvinpinto]

Did you per chance enable permissions on your repo? I recently ran into something similar, this is what I use on another repo:

permissions:
  id-token: "write"
  contents: "write"
  packages: "write"
  pull-requests: "read"

You can probably ignore id-token unless you’re using GitHub OIDC auth. The permissions are not very well documented so I had to figure this out by trial and error.

[rtrad89]

For anyone else coming along later, I had to go to Settings -> Actions -> General and give “Read and write permissions” to the Github Actions workflows.

It is not recommended to solve the problem on the repo level. I had to just specify the workflow’s permissions as per this comment, which is more secure I believe.