cat: /etc/docker/daemon.json: No such file or directory

[hansehe]

Hi, and first of all, a great package!

But just yesterday, I continuously get this error in the github actions pipeline:

Run docker-practice/actions-setup-docker@master
check docker systemd status
check docker version
add apt source
update apt cache
show available docker version
remove default moby
install docker
check docker version
check docker systemd status
show default daemon json content
  /usr/bin/sudo cat /etc/docker/daemon.json
  cat: /etc/docker/daemon.json: No such file or directory
  Error: Error: The process '/usr/bin/sudo' failed with exit code 1

The job runs on ubuntu-latest, with this setup:

name: CD

on: 
  workflow_dispatch: {}
  push:
    tags: [ 'v*' ]

env:
  DOCKER_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }}
  DOCKER_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }}

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        docker_channel:
          - stable

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Set up Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
      - name: setup Docker
        uses: docker-practice/actions-setup-docker@master
        with:
          docker_channel: ${{ matrix.docker_channel }}
      - name: login to docker hub
        uses: docker/login-action@v1
        with:
          registry: docker.io
          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }}

      - name: Install requirements
        run: |
          pip install DockerBuildManagement
      
      - name: Publish
        run: |
          dbm -build -publish prod

I think it's a problem with some runners hosted by github, but is there something we can do to handle this?

Best regards.
Hans Erik Heggem

[hansehe]

After some experimenting, I tried to downgrade to using ubuntu-22.04 (from ubuntu-latest, which is ubuntu-24.04), and then it all works. So I've posted an issue here:

• cat: /etc/docker/daemon.json: No such file or directory actions/runner-images#10697

[korridor]

We had the same issue. I tried to deactivate experimental with the config of the action, like it is suggested in the linked issue, but that didn't change anything. I wanted to prevent downgrading Ubuntu.

We now replaced this GitHub action with this action: https://github.com/crazy-max/ghaction-setup-docker
It was straightforward to migrate, just changed the uses: property. This action also has the advantage of better versioning.

[YasharF]

You can also switch from docker-practice/actions-setup-docker to docker/setup-docker-action@v4 which is maintained by Docker. That should work with Ubuntu 24.04 aka ubuntu-latest.

[korridor]

@YasharF Thanks, that is probably the cleaner solution!