`cml launch` fails to start runners with terraform error

[thatGreekGuy96]

Hello,
I am getting the following error when trying to launch some runners with cml launch on github actions.

{"level":"error","message":"terraform,version\n\t\n\t","stack":"Error: terraform,version\n\t\n\t\n    at /snapshot/cml/src/utils.js:38:18\n    at exithandler (node:child_process:406:5)\n    at ChildProcess.errorhandler (node:child_process:418:5)\n    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:527:28)\n    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:289:12)\n    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:478:16)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21)"}

The exact command i'm trying to run is:

 cml runner launch \
    --cloud=aws \
    --cloud-region=eu-west-2 \
    --cloud-type=m7i.large \
    --cloud-hdd-size 100 \

I am running cml version 0.20.4 and setting it up using the iterative/setup-cml@v3 action.

Thank you in advance!

[amrishparmar]

For anyone else who finds this issue we found that the problem may be related to some interaction with the latest Ubuntu version. We were using the default ubuntu-latest which now maps to 24.04. Explicitly setting this to 22.04 resulted in this error going away.

e.g.

jobs:
  deploy-runner:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04