Upgrade from setup-dotnet from 2 to 3.0.2 - Permission Denied

[mj-dias]

Description:
Failing to upgrade from actions/setup-dotnet@v2 to actions/[email protected] with error of Permission Denied

Task version:
v3.0.3

Platform:

• Ubuntu
• macOS
• Windows

Runner type:

• Hosted
• Self-hosted

Repro steps:
Upgrade from actions/setup-dotnet@v2 to actions/[email protected]

Expected behavior:
Continue working without errors as it was with version 2.

Actual behavior:

--> With Error
When the upgrade from actions/setup-dotnet@v2 to actions/[email protected] is used the following errors occur:

> Run actions/[email protected]
  with:
    dotnet-version: 6.0.x

/opt/actions-runner/_work/_actions/actions/setup-dotnet/v3.0.3/externals/install-dotnet.sh --channel 6.0
dotnet-install: Note that the intended use of this script is for Continuous Integration (CI) scenarios, where:
dotnet-install: - The SDK needs to be installed without user interaction and without admin rights.
dotnet-install: - The SDK installation doesn't need to persist across multiple CI runs.
dotnet-install: To set up a development environment or to run apps, use installers rather than this script. Visit https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download to get the installer.

dotnet-install: Attempting to download using aka.ms link https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/6.0.403/dotnet-sdk-6.0.403-linux-x64.tar.gz
dotnet-install: Extracting zip from https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/6.0.403/dotnet-sdk-6.0.403-linux-x64.tar.gz
cp: cannot create directory '/usr/share/dotnet/host/fxr/6.0.11/': Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory '/usr/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Ref/6.0.11/': Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory '/usr/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.NETCore.App.Host.linux-x64/6.0.11/': Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory '/usr/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.NETCore.App.Ref/6.0.11/': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/share/dotnet/sdk-manifests’: Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory '/usr/share/dotnet/sdk-manifests/6.0.300/': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create directory '/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/6.0.403/': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/6.0.403’: Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory '/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/6.0.403/DotnetTools/dotnet-dev-certs/6.0.11-servicing.[2](https://github.com/Intelliflo/github-actions/actions/runs/3362525391/jobs/5709512855#step:3:2)252[3](https://github.com/Intelliflo/github-actions/actions/runs/3362525391/jobs/5709512855#step:3:3).[4](https://github.com/Intelliflo/github-actions/actions/runs/3362525391/jobs/5709512855#step:3:5)/': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/6.0.403’: Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory '/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/6.0.403/DotnetTools/dotnet-user-secrets/6.0.11-servicing.22[5](https://github.com/Intelliflo/github-actions/actions/runs/3362525391/jobs/5709512855#step:3:6)23.4/': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/[6](https://github.com/Intelliflo/github-actions/actions/runs/3362525391/jobs/5709512855#step:3:7).0.403’: Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory '/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/6.0.403/DotnetTools/dotnet-watch/6.0.403-servicing.22523.23/': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create directory '/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App/6.0.11/': Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory '/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/6.0.11/': Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory '/usr/share/dotnet/templates/6.0.11/': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file '/usr/share/dotnet/dotnet': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file '/usr/share/dotnet/ThirdPartyNotices.txt': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file '/usr/share/dotnet/LICENSE.txt': Permission denied
dotnet_install: Error: Failed to verify the version of installed `.NET Core SDK`.
Installation source: https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/6.0.403/dotnet-sdk-6.0.403-linux-x64.tar.gz.
Installation location: /usr/share/dotnet.
Report the bug at https://github.com/dotnet/install-scripts/issues.
dotnet_install: Error: `.NET Core SDK` with version = 6.0.403 failed to install with an error.
Error: Failed to install dotnet 1. dotnet-install: Note that the intended use of this script is for Continuous Integration (CI) scenarios, where:
dotnet-install: - The SDK needs to be installed without user interaction and without admin rights.
dotnet-install: - The SDK installation doesn't need to persist across multiple CI runs.
dotnet-install: To set up a development environment or to run apps, use installers rather than this script. Visit https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download to get the installer.

dotnet-install: Attempting to download using aka.ms link https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/6.0.403/dotnet-sdk-6.0.403-linux-x64.tar.gz
dotnet-install: Extracting zip from https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/6.0.403/dotnet-sdk-6.0.403-linux-x64.tar.gz

--> Without Error
With version 2, the same step:

> Run actions/setup-dotnet@v[2](https://github.com/Intelliflo/github-actions/actions/runs/3426673822/jobs/5708760078#step:3:2)
  with:
    dotnet-version: 6.0.x
    include-prerelease: false

/opt/actions-runner/_work/_actions/actions/setup-dotnet/v2/externals/install-dotnet.sh --version 6.0.40[3](https://github.com/Intelliflo/github-actions/actions/runs/3426673822/jobs/5708760078#step:3:3)
dotnet-install: Note that the intended use of this script is for Continuous Integration (CI) scenarios, where:
dotnet-install: - The SDK needs to be installed without user interaction and without admin rights.
dotnet-install: - The SDK installation doesn't need to persist across multiple CI runs.
dotnet-install: To set up a development environment or to run apps, use installers rather than this script. Visit https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download to get the installer.

dotnet-install: Attempting to download using primary link https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/6.0.[4](https://github.com/Intelliflo/github-actions/actions/runs/3426673822/jobs/5708760078#step:3:4)03/dotnet-sdk-[6](https://github.com/Intelliflo/github-actions/actions/runs/3426673822/jobs/5708760078#step:3:7).0.403-linux-x64.tar.gz
dotnet-install: Extracting zip from https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/6.0.403/dotnet-sdk-6.0.403-linux-x64.tar.gz
dotnet-install: Installed version is 6.0.403
dotnet-install: Adding to current process PATH: `/home/runners/.dotnet`. Note: This change will be visible only when sourcing script.
dotnet-install: Note that the script does not resolve dependencies during installation.
dotnet-install: To check the list of dependencies, go to https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/install, select your operating system and check the "Dependencies" section.
dotnet-install: Installation finished successfully.
/home/runners/.dotnet:/home/runners/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin

[IvanZosimov]

Hi, @mj-dias 👋 Thanks for the issue! In the third version of the actions the place where the action installs .NET SDKs was changed. As I see from the logs you provided, the user that you're using doesn't have permission to write to this folder. There are two ways to solve this problem: 1) Get permissions for your user to write to /usr/share/dotnet; 2) Use env.variable DOTNET_INSTALL_DIR to set that folder, where you have permission to write, like it's stated in README.md:

  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  env:
    DOTNET_INSTALL_DIR: "path/to/directory"
  steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@main
    - uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v3
      with:
        dotnet-version: '3.1.x'

Now, I'm going to close this issue as a duplicate of this one. If you have any other questions, feel free to ping me.