Error when running this action from an EC2 hosted runner

[john-jerome]

Subject of the issue

I'm trying to run this actions on an EC2 hosted runner and I'm getting the following error:

Prepare git configuration
/usr/bin/git config --global --name-only --get-regexp safe.directory /actions-runner/_work/dbt-source-layer/dbt-source-layer
fatal: $HOME not set
/usr/bin/git config --global --add safe.directory /actions-runner/_work/dbt-source-layer/dbt-source-layer
fatal: $HOME not set
Error: The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128

I'm using a PAT with all the necessary scopes on the repo.

Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!

[peter-evans]

Hi @john-jerome

This explanation might be the same problem: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56957868/11934042

The solution described won't work in this case. I think you need to run the EC2 instance as a user, not root. The root user doesn't have a $HOME directory, according to the blog post linked in that answer.

[peter-evans]

Closing this for now.