ENOENT: no such file or directory during self-install

[thathurtabit]

Admittedly my knowledge of github-actions and pnpm is not great, and I'm running into this issue during the pnpm/action-setup stage.

For some reason - likely down to missing settings - it's doubling the app name, i.e. glssry.org/glssry.org/package.json I'm not sure why that is.

Run pnpm/action-setup@v2.4.0
Running self-installer...
  [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/runner/work/glssry.org/glssry.org/package.json'] {
    errno: -2,
    code: 'ENOENT',
    syscall: 'open',
    path: '/home/runner/work/glssry.org/glssry.org/package.json'
  }
  Error: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/runner/work/glssry.org/glssry.org/package.json'

[oakhtar147]

Assuming you have something like this in the step:

 - name: Install pnpm
   uses: pnpm/action-setup@v2

You need to provide a pnpm version. According to the docs:

Version of pnpm to install.
Optional when there is a packageManager field in the package.json.
otherwise, this field is required It supports npm versioning scheme, it could be an exact version (such as 6.24.1), or a version range (such as 6, 6.x.x, 6.24.x, ^6.24.1, *, etc.), or latest.

So either specify a version or a package_json_file:

- name: Install pnpm
  uses: pnpm/action-setup@v2
  with:
    version: ^8.14.1
    package_json_file: path/to/package.json # Alternatively, specify path to `package.json` that has `packageManager` field.

The packageManager alternative is buggy due to non-standard convention followed by pnpm. See more here.

This will fix your error if it's due to the version. If not, I cannot help without additional information or reproduction.

[thathurtabit]

Hi, thanks for the reply, sorry I should have given more info:

So my github-action (called preview.yaml) has:

    steps:
    - uses: pnpm/action-setup@v2
      name: Install pnpm
      with:
        version: ^8.14.1

My package.json has:

  "packageManager": "pnpm@8.14.1",

I get slightly different error messages between running the actions locally with act and when deployed to github

• notably the path is different (github doubles the glssry.org part of the path):

act (local)

[Vercel Production Deployment/Deploy-Production] ⭐ Run Main pnpm/action-setup@v2.4.0
[Vercel Production Deployment/Deploy-Production]   🐳  docker cp src=/Users/Stephen.Fairbanks/.cache/act/pnpm-action-setup@v2.4.0/ dst=/var/run/act/actions/pnpm-action-setup@v2.4.0/
[Vercel Production Deployment/Deploy-Production]   🐳  docker exec cmd=[node /var/run/act/actions/pnpm-action-setup@v2.4.0/dist/index.js] user= workdir=
[Vercel Production Deployment/Deploy-Production]   ❓  ::group::Running self-installer...
| [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/Stephen.Fairbanks/Repos/glssry.org/package.json'] {
|   errno: -2,
|   code: 'ENOENT',
|   syscall: 'open',
|   path: '/Users/Stephen.Fairbanks/Repos/glssry.org/package.json'
| }
[Vercel Production Deployment/Deploy-Production]   ❗  ::error::Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/Stephen.Fairbanks/Repos/glssry.org/package.json'
[Vercel Production Deployment/Deploy-Production]   ❌  Failure - Main pnpm/action-setup@v2.4.0
[Vercel Production Deployment/Deploy-Production] exitcode '1': failure

Github:

Run pnpm/action-setup@v2.4.0
Running self-installer...
  [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/runner/work/glssry.org/glssry.org/package.json'] {
    errno: -2,
    code: 'ENOENT',
    syscall: 'open',
    path: '/home/runner/work/glssry.org/glssry.org/package.json'
  }
  Error: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/runner/work/glssry.org/glssry.org/package.json'

I'd guess it's something simple I'm missing.

[oakhtar147]

My best bet is sticking to one pnpm version, either defined in package.json or within the workflow file.

I'm not aware of your directory structure, but the action also expects a package_json_file filepath incase you are running a monorepo setup for example.

My personal experience was that I faced errors defining the version in packageManager field in package.json due to the non-standard convention this action expects, so I stuck with defining it in the workflow file. And it worked without problems.

Regarding the double directory issue, I did get that as well in error logs. I am not sure if this is something for maintainers of this repo to fix, but here's another issue that might help you.

Hope this helps!

[thathurtabit]

Thanks for your reply here, but I don't know if I can find a way to solve this.

Just for clarity on my folder structure (I'm running a Next app, but not a monorepo):

   .github
     - workflows
     -- preview.yaml
     -- production.yaml
   ...
   package.json

Running act locally to test the actions, I get the error:

Run Main pnpm/action-setup@v2.4.0
[Vercel Production Deployment/Deploy-Production]   🐳  docker cp src=/Users/Stephen.Fairbanks/.cache/act/pnpm-action-setup@v2.4.0/ dst=/var/run/act/actions/pnpm-action-setup@v2.4.0/
[Vercel Production Deployment/Deploy-Production]   🐳  docker exec cmd=[node /var/run/act/actions/pnpm-action-setup@v2.4.0/dist/index.js] user= workdir=
[Vercel Production Deployment/Deploy-Production]   ❓  ::group::Running self-installer...
| [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/Stephen.Fairbanks/Repos/glssry.org/package.json'] {
|   errno: -2,
|   code: 'ENOENT',
|   syscall: 'open',
|   path: '/Users/Stephen.Fairbanks/Repos/glssry.org/package.json'
| }

...
 ERR_PNPM_NO_PKG_MANIFEST  No package.json found in /Users/Stephen.Fairbanks/Repos/glssry.org

If I click the path in my terminal, it takes me directly to the package.json file, so I don't know why the runner can't find it.

The issue you kindly provided doesn't seem to have a resolution unfortunately. I might just have to give up and go back to npm.

[arcs-]

Are you missing the uses: actions/checkout@v4 step in front of it? This would result in you not having the package.json.

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - uses: pnpm/action-setup@v3

[thathurtabit]

This was it @arcs- ! Thank you for taking a look. I clearly need to understand how github actions work. Thanks very much.