return-license fails to return a license

[oshaughnessy]

Bug description

Running "return-license" does not return a license.

How to reproduce

Manually invoke this workflow definition:

jobs:
  return-license:
    runs-on: ${{ github.event.inputs.runs-on }}
    env:
      UNITY_SERIAL: ${{ secrets.UNITY_SERIAL }}
    steps:
      - uses: game-ci/unity-return-license@main
        if: always()

Expected behavior

An allocation of the license associated with $UNITY_SERIAL is returned to the Unity ID service.

Additional details

Initiating legacy licensing module
DisplayProgressbar: Returning license
Cancelling DisplayDialog: Failed to return license Unity license return request has timed out. Please verify that you are connected to the Internet and/or try again later.
This should not be called in batch mode.

(Filename: ./Editor/Platform/Linux/EditorUtility.cpp Line: 274)

DisplayProgressbar: Unity license
[UnityConnectServicesConfig] config is NOT valid, switching to default
[0322/193048:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(161)] Running without the SUID sandbox! See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxSUIDSandboxDevelopment for more information on developing with the sandbox on.
[0322/193048:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(308)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process
Cancelling DisplayDialog: Failed to activate/update license. Missing or bad username and password. Please try again using valid credentials or contact support@unity3d.com
This should not be called in batch mode.

(Filename: ./Editor/Platform/Linux/EditorUtility.cpp Line: 274)

[davidmfinol]

For additional context, this is trying to use a linux runner to return a license that was activated on a mac runner.

I believe the fix for this may be to introduce UNITY_USERNAME and UNITY_PASSWORD as optional parameters to this action. Then, if all 3 of UNITY_USERNAME, UNITY_PASSWORD, and UNITY_SERIAL are provided, we would use those 3 to call the -returnlicense.

[oshaughnessy]

Heh. I did try that, too, but I left them out of the example above, thinking it would confuse things. I got the same error either way.

[webbertakken]

Did you fork the action and pass these vars into the actual command?

[oshaughnessy]

Oh, no, sorry for the confusion. I just tried passing them as env vars. But looking at the code now (for the first time), I see those aren't used at all. I can give that a shot, though.

[oshaughnessy]

Okay, learning stuff! I forked this repo and added code to utilize the username and password if given. I get a timeout error:

LICENSE SYSTEM [2022324 21:3:21] Received https://license.unity3d.com/update/poll?cmd=9&tx_id=...

LICENSE SYSTEM [2022324 21:3:21] Headers:
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    sc-request-id: ...
    sc-token-expires-in: 7223
    Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
    Pragma: no-cache
    Expires: 0
    Vary: Accept-Encoding
    Content-Encoding: deflate
    Content-Type: text/plain
    Content-Length: 116

Cancelling DisplayDialog: Failed to activate/update license. Timeout occured while trying to update license. Please try again later or contact support@unity3d.com
This should not be called in batch mode.

[davidmfinol]

Is there some networking issue that would cause the timeout, or is it simply that we are invoking the return license incorrectly? Does the return license section on this page help?: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ManagingYourUnityLicense.html

[oshaughnessy]

I was just working through the options there. It looks to me like older versions of Unity suggested just passing -returnlicense and newer versions of the docs suggest including -username and -password. None of them, that I could find, mention wanting -serial, and when I tried passing both -serial and -username/-password, I got an error that -serial should only be passed when activating. So... I think the check for $UNITY_SERIAL is a bit of a misguidance.

Regardless, I don't know why the networking error comes up. When I try the same command-line args from my Mac, I don't get the same response. It makes me wonder if there's a connectivity issue between Azure and id.unity.com.