Initial install on windows outputs "The system cannot find the file specified" on first run

[Dmiller]

Bug report info

act version:            0.2.58
GOOS:                   windows
GOARCH:                 amd64
NumCPU:                 32
Docker host:            DOCKER_HOST environment variable is not set
Sockets found:
        \\.\pipe\docker_engine(broken)
Config files:
Build info:
        Go version:            go1.20.13
        Module path:           github.com/nektos/act
        Main version:          (devel)
        Main path:             github.com/nektos/act
        Main checksum:
        Build settings:
                -buildmode:           exe
                -compiler:            gc
                -ldflags:             -s -w -X main.version=0.2.58 -X main.commit=3ed38d8e8b63f435cb845fbe9cdccc7ff032f402 -X main.date=2024-02-01T02:12:51Z -X main.builtBy=goreleaser
                CGO_ENABLED:          0
                GOARCH:               amd64
                GOOS:                 windows
                GOAMD64:              v1
                vcs:                  git
                vcs.revision:         3ed38d8e8b63f435cb845fbe9cdccc7ff032f402
                vcs.time:             2024-02-01T02:12:33Z
                vcs.modified:         false
Docker Engine:
        Engine version:        25.0.2
        Engine runtime:        runc
        Cgroup version:        1
        Cgroup driver:         cgroupfs
        Storage driver:        overlay2
        Registry URI:          https://index.docker.io/v1/
        OS:                    Docker Desktop
        OS type:               linux
        OS version:
        OS arch:               x86_64
        OS kernel:             5.15.133.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
        OS CPU:                32
        OS memory:             31663 MB
        Security options:
                name=seccomp,profile=unconfined

Command used with act

act -n
act

Describe issue

After following the setup steps defined in the readme, the first run of act fails with the same error whenever a command is invoked which requires picking the default docker image.

These are my setup steps:

1. Installed Docker Desktop
2. Restart machine
3. Install Act via winget

Test is rep

Link to GitHub repository

No response

Workflow content

name: On Push, do nothing
on: push
jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - run: exit 0

Relevant log output

$ act push -v 2> log_out.txt
? Please choose the default image you want to use with act:
  - Large size image: ca. 17GB download + 53.1GB storage, you will need 75GB of free disk space, snapshots of GitHub Hosted Runners without snap and pulled docker images
  - Medium size image: ~500MB, includes only necessary tools to bootstrap actions and aims to be compatible with most actions
  - Micro size image: <200MB, contains only NodeJS required to bootstrap actions, doesn't work with all actions

Default image and other options can be changed manually in ~/.actrc (please refer to https://github.com/nektos/act#configuration for additional information about file structure) Medium


########## log_out.txt ###########
time="2024-02-04T12:53:50-06:00" level=debug msg="Loading environment from F:\\source\\tmp\\act-demo\\.env"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:50-06:00" level=debug msg="Conditional GET for notices etag=d8bc7c2d-a20f-4b4a-b8e0-08aca290f896"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:50-06:00" level=debug msg="Loading action inputs from F:\\source\\tmp\\act-demo\\.input"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:50-06:00" level=debug msg="Loading secrets from F:\\source\\tmp\\act-demo\\.secrets"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:50-06:00" level=debug msg="Loading vars from F:\\source\\tmp\\act-demo\\.vars"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:50-06:00" level=debug msg="Evaluated matrix inclusions: map[]"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:50-06:00" level=debug msg="Loading workflows from 'F:\\source\\tmp\\act-demo\\.github\\workflows'"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:50-06:00" level=debug msg="Loading workflows recursively"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:50-06:00" level=debug msg="Found workflow 'on_push_do_nothing.yml' in 'F:\\source\\tmp\\act-demo\\.github\\workflows\\on_push_do_nothing.yml'"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:50-06:00" level=debug msg="Reading workflow 'F:\\source\\tmp\\act-demo\\.github\\workflows\\on_push_do_nothing.yml'"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:50-06:00" level=debug msg="Using first passed in arguments event for filtering: push"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:50-06:00" level=debug msg="Preparing plan for a event: push"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:50-06:00" level=debug msg="Using first passed in arguments event: push"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:50-06:00" level=debug msg="Planning jobs for event: push"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:51-06:00" level=debug msg="Saving notices etag=d8bc7c2d-a20f-4b4a-b8e0-08aca290f896"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:51-06:00" level=debug msg="No new notices"
time="2024-02-04T12:53:52-06:00" level=fatal msg="open : The system cannot find the file specified."

Additional information

$ ls -a ~ | grep actrc outputs empty

find . outputs:

.
./.github
./.github/workflows
./.github/workflows/on_push_do_nothing.yml
./log_out.txt

[ChristopherHX]

@dsmiller95 We released v0.2.59 due to this bug, but Defender detected malware???microsoft/winget-pkgs#137554

Please create a .actrc file manually see my comment:
#2193 (comment)

Or provide a -P flag to act

[Dmiller]

Ah, dang! since it's a bad version, I tried downgrading to v0.2.57 manually, via:

winget uninstall nektos.act
winget install nektos.act --version 0.2.57

It seems to be resolved, thanks!