start-measurement step fails

[jreimone]

In my private repo the following step fails:

name: Daily execution of tests
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 04 * * MON-FRI'

jobs:
  tests:
    name: Run tests
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Initialize Energy Estimation
        uses: green-coding-berlin/eco-ci-energy-estimation@v2
        with:
          task: start-measurement

Here is an excerpt of the log I see from the run:

Requirement already satisfied: tqdm==4.65.0 in /tmp/eco-ci/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from -r /tmp/eco-ci/spec-power-model/requirements.txt (line 25)) (4.65.0)
Requirement already satisfied: tzdata==2023.3 in /tmp/eco-ci/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from -r /tmp/eco-ci/spec-power-model/requirements.txt (line 26)) (2023.3)
Requirement already satisfied: xgboost==1.7.5 in /tmp/eco-ci/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from -r /tmp/eco-ci/spec-power-model/requirements.txt (line 27)) (1.7.5)
jq: error (at <stdin>:1): Cannot iterate over null (null)
Error: Process completed with exit code 5.

Unfortunately, I couldn't reproduce it in my public repo in this PR. I know it's hard, but maybe you have an idea what the issue can be?

[ArneTR]

Thanks for the report!

We haven't seen this so far, but getting right to it :)

Can you tell which version of eco-ci you are using and which Mandatory and Optional Variables you have set? (https://github.com/green-coding-berlin/eco-ci-energy-estimation#github-action-mandatory-and-optional-variables)

@dan-mm Can you please take over

[ArneTR]

Also follow up question: Are you using the github default runner, or a self hosted runner?

[jreimone]

I use a default runner and v2 of the action (see screenshot). As of the variables I only set the task variable which you can also see in the linked public PR (where it doesn't fail).

[dan-mm]

Thanks for the report! Taking a look now

[dan-mm]

If this is a private repo, you need to give your actions read permissions (outlined in the ReadMe here: https://github.com/green-coding-berlin/eco-ci-energy-estimation#note-on-private-repos). You can set this on a per-job level:

 test:
   runs-on: ubuntu-latest
   permissions:
     actions: read
   steps:
     - name: Eco CI - Initialize
       uses: green-coding-berlin/eco-ci-energy-estimation@v1
       with:
         task: start-measurement

do you have that set / still see this issue after setting it?

[dan-mm]

@jreimone - are you still experiencing this issue?

[ArneTR]

Closed because of no response

[jreimone]

Sorry for the veeeeeeeryyyyy late follow-up here 😬 I just tried it out again. I can confirm that the error doesn't occur anymore 👍 But setting the permissions to read as you suggested here didn't work. Activating it let my checkout step fail in the private repo. Deleting the following lines was successful then.

permissions:
     actions: read

[ArneTR]

hey @jreimone : Can you state which version of the Action you are using?

[jreimone]

uses: green-coding-berlin/eco-ci-energy-estimation@v2

[ArneTR]

@dan-mm Can you have a look into this