convert Command Not Found on Ubuntu 24.04

[dfuchss]

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Bug description

The convert command from ImageMagick fails to run in workflows using the latest ubuntu-latest tag in GitHub Actions. I guess this issue occurs because ubuntu:latest now uses Ubuntu 24.04 instead of 22.04.

How to reproduce the bug

Just build a website with images and look into the logs.

Error messages and logs

Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating... 
       Jekyll Feed: Generating feed for posts
       Imagemagick: Searching files in /home/runner/work/ardoco.github.io/ardoco.github.io/assets/img/
       Imagemagick: Generating image "/home/runner/work/ardoco.github.io/ardoco.github.io/_site/assets/img/icsa2019_poster-480.webp"
       Imagemagick: Command returned pid 1991 exit 127 with error sh: 1: convert: not found 
       Imagemagick: Generating image "/home/runner/work/ardoco.github.io/ardoco.github.io/_site/assets/img/icsa2019_poster-800.webp"

What operating system are you using?

Not applicable (e.g. you're using GitHub Pages or other hosting)

Where are you seeing the problem on?

Deployed site

More info

The page still reders, but the webp files are not generated anymore

[george-gca]

Can you give a link to your repository? I manually run the deploy action yesterday on this repo and everything run smoothly.

[dfuchss]

-> https://github.com/ArDoCo/ardoco.github.io/actions/runs/12394598016/job/34598413409

[dfuchss]

This commit is the interesting one: ArDoCo/ardoco.github.io@c33c080

And as far as I can see, the runner of the build before was 22.04 and for this commit it was 24.04.

[dfuchss]

Can you give a link to your repository? I manually run the deploy action yesterday on this repo and everything run smoothly.

Yes, this action still used "ubuntu 22.04.5" .. tbh I don't know how github decides whether to use 24.04 or 22.04 :D

-> actions/runner-images#10636

[george-gca]

Your deploy action is working just fine, every run of deploy, and I can see that it is using the latest ubuntu tag. What is the problem?

[ananthu-aniraj]

Hi @dfuchss, I had the same issue. A temporary work-around is to replace the "ubuntu-latest" in the github workflow files with "ubuntu-22.04" (https://github.com/actions/runner-images?tab=readme-ov-file#available-images)

The corresponding files can be seen here: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aalshedivat%2Fal-folio%20ubuntu-latest&type=code

[dfuchss]

Your deploy action is working just fine, every run of deploy, and I can see that it is using the latest ubuntu tag. What is the problem?

In the logs you can see that the creation of webp files fail silently :) so the srcSet of the images are empty . See https://github.com/ArDoCo/ardoco.github.io/tree/gh-pages/assets/img

The images are not being processed .

[george-gca]

Now I understand. The action that failed is actually not using ubuntu 24.04 as can be seen in the warning. I don't think this is actually the problem.

Hi @dfuchss, I had the same issue. A temporary work-around is to replace the "ubuntu-latest" in the github workflow files with "ubuntu-22.04" (https://github.com/actions/runner-images?tab=readme-ov-file#available-images)

Did this work for you? If it didn't, we can be sure it is not a problem of ubuntu version.

[dfuchss]

Now I understand. The action that failed is actually not using ubuntu 24.04 as can be seen in the warning. I don't think this is actually the problem.

Hi @dfuchss, I had the same issue. A temporary work-around is to replace the "ubuntu-latest" in the github workflow files with "ubuntu-22.04" (https://github.com/actions/runner-images?tab=readme-ov-file#available-images)

Did this work for you? If it didn't, we can be sure it is not a problem of ubuntu version.

Yes that works. After downgrading the version, the webp files are generated again.
If you look into the first phase of the actions you see the system that was used for the silently failing action is 24.04.

[lijiaqi]

@dfuchss @george-gca
I solved this issue by manually adding an extra step to explicitly run sudo apt-get install -y imagemagick in the workflow file. This step should be put before - name: Install and Build 🔧.

This issue happened as it seems that imagemagick is not longer pre-installed in the ubuntu-24.04 github action environment. See here

...
      - name: Update _config.yml ⚙️
        uses: fjogeleit/yaml-update-action@main
        with:
          commitChange: false
          valueFile: "_config.yml"
          propertyPath: "giscus.repo"
          value: ${{ github.repository }}
      - name: Install imagemagick (convert)
        run: |
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install -y imagemagick
      - name: Install and Build 🔧
        run: |
          pip3 install --upgrade nbconvert
          export JEKYLL_ENV=production
          bundle exec jekyll build
...

[george-gca]

Can you send a PR for this? Only 1 suggestion, move all install code inside the Install and Build step, like this:

      - name: Install and Build 🔧
        run: |
          sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y imagemagick
          pip3 install --upgrade nbconvert
          export JEKYLL_ENV=production
          bundle exec jekyll build

and also do that for the axe and broken-links-site actions?

[lijiaqi]

@george-gca
Sure. Made it at #2906