On a new WIN10 machine after installing gitlab-runner with shell executor(i.e powershell) and starting a CI build throws following error:
Preparing environment
ERROR: Job failed (system failure): prepare environment: failed to start process: exec: "pwsh": executable file not found in %PATH%. Check https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/shells/index.html#shell-profile-loading for more information
pwsh entry for the shell attribute in gitlab-runner config.toml refers to the newer powershell(pwsh.exe) and does not come pre-installed in some WIN10 machines which contain only older powershell.exe. You can do one of following solutions:
Solution 1: Open a CMD or powershell window and install the newer pwsh.exe:
winget install Microsoft.PowerShell
Solution 2: Edit your config.toml to use the older powershell.exe:
From
[[runners]]
name = "ci-runner"
url = "http://xxx.yyy.xx/"
token = "XXXXX"
executor = "shell"
shell = "pwsh"
To
[[runners]]
name = "ci-runner"
url = "http://xxx.yyy.xx/"
token = "XXXXX"
executor = "shell"
shell = "powershell"
And then restarting gitlab-runner fixed the issue.
gitlab-runner.exe restart
If you are on Windows, You can use docker instead shell when the value of executor is asking to you, with gitlab/gitlab-runner as default image. It works for me.
More infos here:
My config.toml file looks like (dev env):
concurrent = 1
check_interval = 0
[session_server]
session_timeout = 1800
[[runners]]
name = "Your name here"
url = "https://gitlab.com/"
token = "Your token"
executor = "docker"
[runners.custom_build_dir]
[runners.cache]
[runners.cache.s3]
[runners.cache.gcs]
[runners.cache.azure]
[runners.docker]
tls_verify = false
image = "gitlab/gitlab-runner"
privileged = false
disable_entrypoint_overwrite = false
oom_kill_disable = false
disable_cache = false
volumes = ["/cache"]
shm_size = 0
After running gitlab cicd runner you will get a file named config.tomal change :
shell = "pwsh" to
shell = "powershell"
