Azure-pipelines-tasks: Multiple checkout with custom paths fails in the container job

[beatcracker]

Required Information

Type: Bug

Task Name: checkout aka 6d15af64-176c-496d-b583-fd2ae21d4df4@1

Environment

• Server - Azure Pipelines

  This is a private CI setup, I can provide the account name, team project name, build definition name/build number via email.

• Agent - Hosted, Azure Pipelines, ubuntu-latest

Issue Description

When trying to use multiple checkout feature inside container job, it fails with ##[error]Unable to process command '##vso[plugininternal.updaterepositorypath alias=self;]/home/vsts/work/1/s' successfully.

This azure-pipelines.yml reproduces the issue:

resources:
  containers:
  - container: netcore_sdk_3
    image: mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk:3.1
stages:
- stage:
  jobs:
  - job:
    container: netcore_sdk_3
    pool:
      vmImage: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - checkout: self
        path: s
      - checkout: self
        path: s/.azd

Task logs

Anonymized task logs: azd_logs.zip

Error logs

==============================================================================
Task         : Get sources
Description  : Get sources from a repository. Supports Git, TfsVC, and SVN repositories.
Version      : 1.0.0
Author       : Microsoft
Help         : [More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=798199)
==============================================================================
##[error]Unable to process command '##vso[plugininternal.updaterepositorypath alias=self;]/home/vsts/work/1/s' successfully. Please reference documentation (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=817296)
##[error]Repository path '/home/vsts/work/1/s' should be located under agent's work directory '/__w/1'.
##[debug]System.ArgumentException: Repository path '/home/vsts/work/1/s' should be located under agent's work directory '/__w/1'.
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Agent.Worker.Build.BuildDirectoryManager.GetRelativeRepositoryPath(String buildDirectory, String repositoryPath)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Agent.Worker.PluginInternalUpdateRepositoryPathCommand.Execute(IExecutionContext context, Command command)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Agent.Worker.BaseWorkerCommandExtension.ProcessCommand(IExecutionContext context, Command command, IWorkerCommandRestrictionPolicy restrictionPolicy)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Agent.Worker.WorkerCommandManager.TryProcessCommand(IExecutionContext context, String input)

[qmfrederik]

I'm having the same issue. Should this issue be tracked in the azure-pipelines-agent or azure-pipelines-tasks repository?

[beatcracker]

@qmfrederik FYI, I've worked around this issue by specifying target: host for checkout steps.

[qmfrederik]

@beatcracker Awesome! That works, thank you.

[mtene]

Also experienced this. @beatcracker's workaround removes OP's error, but the next task after it fails with a weird exception. It may be relevant that I am not checking out to 's' but to 'b/somedir'. Not being able to pass absolute paths, such as those stemming from variables like $(Build.BinariesDirectory), to the checkout task is a pain I had to workaround to as well...

events.js:160
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn /__a/externals/node/bin/node ENOENT
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:1020:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:197:32)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:376:16)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:80:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)
##[error]Exit code 1 returned from process: file name '/usr/bin/docker', arguments 'exec -i -u 1000 58ef71b982ab414e44f3b83bd961fa9db4536dd2e4c1d9686b936ed1a06d0667 /__a/externals/node/bin/node /__w/_temp/containerHandlerInvoker.js'.

LE: Before, my pipeline had a single checkout step:

      - checkout: someotherrepo
        path: b/somedir
        target: host

adding a second checkout step seems to have fixed the problem:

      - checkout: self
        target: host

Clearly buggy behavior.

[mtene]

Referenced in this Developer Community post.

[jennli]

@beatcracker thank you so much for the work around, I am having the same issue and your method solved it.

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[beatcracker]

This issue is stale because it has been open for 180 days with no activity.

Just checked, I can still reproduce the issue using the example I provided in the description.

Starting: Checkout foo/bar@test-checkout to s
==============================================================================
Task         : Get sources
Description  : Get sources from a repository. Supports Git, TfsVC, and SVN repositories.
Version      : 1.0.0
Author       : Microsoft
Help         : [More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=798199)
==============================================================================
##[error]Unable to process command '##vso[plugininternal.updaterepositorypath alias=self;]/home/vsts/work/1/s' successfully. Please reference documentation (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=817296)
##[error]Repository path '/home/vsts/work/1/s' should be located under agent's work directory '/__w/1'.
Repository is current at '/home/vsts/work/1/s/bar', move to '/home/vsts/work/1/s'.

It works if I add target: host to checkout steps.