14.3.2 Windows Docker Executor - error during hcsshim::System::CreateProcess

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Env

AMI: ami-02d1f8062b6ef46a5 (Windows_Server-2019-English-Core-ContainersLatest-2021.09.15)
Runner: https://gitlab-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/v14.3.2/binaries/gitlab-runner-windows-amd64.zip

PS C:\Gitlab-Runner> [System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version

Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
10     0      17763  0

PS C:\Gitlab-Runner> docker version
Client: Mirantis Container Runtime
 Version:           20.10.7
 API version:       1.41
 Go version:        go1.13.15
 Git commit:        40ef3b6
 Built:             08/19/2021 18:54:26
 OS/Arch:           windows/amd64
 Context:           default
 Experimental:      true

What happened

Registration and install were successful.
Went to run a pipeline and received this error:

ERROR: Job failed (system failure): Error response from daemon: container 0af81a338701780d1e93b72e210a5957ab315a0f0db53cd89d7a6423458c90bf encountered an error during hcsshim::System::CreateProcess: failure in a Windows system call: The system cannot find the file specified. (0x2) (exec.go:57:1s)

Since I am using an updated AMI I figured maybe that’s where the issue is. So I uninstalled 14.3.2 and installed my previous runner 12.10.2 and just like that my pipelines were working again.

So what gives?? Is 14.3.2 incompatible with this windows build?

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The issue was that my shell was configured for pwsh instead of powershell. I’m not sure why the default shell was changed.

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Hi, It seams that the default shell has changed from powershell to pwsh in gitLab-Runner 14.0 and later: Types of shells supported by GitLab Runner | GitLab

Were did you changed the default shell in your environment?

I installed pwsh in my docker image with: RUN choco install -y pwsh

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Hi team, I don’t know if this is related, but I am getting the following error:

Preparing the "docker-windows" executor
Using Docker executor with image docker:windowsservercore-ltsc2022 ...
Starting service docker:windowsservercore-ltsc2022 ...
Using locally found image version due to "if-not-present" pull policy
Using docker image sha256:723b6471c336c441aa997a1c5d0672ef1de87fe45687edb769c52bd0edce4e81 for docker:windowsservercore-ltsc2022 with digest docker@sha256:8520b3fc85f5fe47604cbba4353f8b2feda30bcf041e26848bd6d812173f4444 ...
ERROR: Preparation failed: Error response from daemon: container 555e9c060cd5c76e135e15f94f092431efc1f5ab682a8c33c318bb0c86b1b856 encountered an error during hcsshim::System::CreateProcess: failure in a Windows system call: The system cannot find the file specified. (0x2) (docker.go:398:18s)

Can you please help?

In the Gitlab Runner config file, it’s configured to pwsh:

  executor = "docker-windows"
  shell = "pwsh"

I tried both pwsh and powershell, originally, the shell statement wasn’t there. But all cases give me the same error :S

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