getCacheEntry - failed with error: connect ECONNREFUSED ::1:8080

[michalcs]

Hey

Following up from a thread in the nektos/act repo. At least a couple of us are experiencing an issue where the localhost server rejects to connect.

I'm on macOS and launching the cache server with:

ACT_CACHE_AUTH_KEY=1234 docker compose up --build

Then act with:

act -j lint -W .github/workflows/test.yml \
  	--env ACTIONS_CACHE_URL=http://localhost:8080/ \
	--env ACTIONS_RUNTIME_URL=http://localhost:8080/ \
	--env ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN=1234

And it yields this error:

::***::Resource Url: http://***:8080/_apis/artifactcache/cache?keys=Linux-yarn-e8943332524d13b75456a47ad703d0a691233a8b9b4b9a8f7146be54228fb5a2%252CLinux-yarn-&version=84d7b02a61d0b31f347fcddab445d98204dc22e7f42a4366ff8a82ec6de1ae78
[ci/test]   ❓  ::***::getCacheEntry - Attempt 1 of 2 failed with error: connect ECONNREFUSED ::1:8080
[ci/test]   💬  ::***::Resource Url: http://***:8080/_apis/artifactcache/cache?keys=Linux-yarn-e8943332524d13b75456a47ad703d0a691233a8b9b4b9a8f7146be54228fb5a2%252CLinux-yarn-&version=84d7b02a61d0b31f347fcddab445d98204dc22e7f42a4366ff8a82ec6de1ae78
[ci/test]   ❓  ::***::getCacheEntry - Attempt 2 of 2 failed with error: connect ECONNREFUSED ::1:8080
[ci/test]   ❓  ::warning::Failed to restore: getCacheEntry failed: connect ECONNREFUSED ::1:8080

Any ideas? 🙏

I've tried all sorts of different ways to initialise the env variables but it's always the same 🤷

[sp-ricard-valverde]

Sorry I have no idea as I'm not actively using the server anymore.
I would try with a different port configuration(other than 8080, you can configure it in the docker-compose file), or a previous cache action version or nekos-act version in case something relevant changed as they are known to work previously.

[sp-ricard-valverde]

I've dug a little bit into it:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15227154/inexplicable-node-js-http-throwing-connect-econnrefused-ipv6
I suspect that the cache server is binding to ipv4 while nekos-act is trying to access ipv6.
I would try to replace localhost for 127.0.0.1 in the ACTIONS_ env vars to enforce ipv4 in nekos-act.

[michalcs]

I would try to replace localhost for 127.0.0.1 in the ACTIONS_ env vars to enforce ipv4 in nekos-act.

This worked perfectly. Awesome. Thank you 🙌

[melMass]

@sp-ricard-valverde Thanks a lot for this project! I would either link this issue or just use 127.0.0.1 in the readme