Virtual-environments: Ubuntu 20 Powershell execution permission bug

[Satak]

Description
Powershell script execution is not working in Ubuntu 20.04 environment:

Run .\scripts\test.ps1
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/run/user/1001’: Permission denied
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Virtual environments affected

• [ ] Ubuntu 16.04
• [ ] Ubuntu 18.04
• [x] Ubuntu 20.04
• [ ] macOS 10.15
• [ ] macOS 11.0
• [ ] Windows Server 2016 R2
• [ ] Windows Server 2019

Expected behavior
Powershell script should be run and executed without problems

Actual behavior
Script is not executed and will terminate to an error: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/run/user/1001’: Permission denied

Repro steps

1. Create a Powershell script in repo
2. Try to run the Powershell script from GitHub actions in pwsh shell

Example

runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Run Powershell
        shell: pwsh
        run: ./scripts/test.ps1

[al-cheb]

Hello, @Satak
The bug was fixed in scope of this https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/pull/2053 PR.

Temporary workaround:

-name : update pwsh
 run: |
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo snap remove powershell
    sudo apt-get install powershell

[Satak]

Workaround doesn't help:

Run .\scripts\test.ps1
test.ps1: /home/runner/work/_temp/679f6144-4c8c-4643-82d3-6a7ed6fe1e95.ps1:2
Line |
   2 |  .\scripts\test.ps1
     |  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     | You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.

Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

[al-cheb]

@Satakm, you should call with pwsh:
pwsh -f .\scripts\test.ps1

Looks like the .\scripts\test.ps1 script contains errors.

[Satak]

You are right. Had problem in the script also which fixed this. Script works either with shell: pwsh or bash shell with pwsh -f ./scripts/test.ps1

[andy-mishechkin]

Hello, @Satak
Has this issue been fixed ?
Can we close this ticket ?

[Satak]

Yes working now!