Issue when not providing --work-dir

[marcodelapierre]

Tower Agent version 0.4.3 (build 87f4d1f)

Issue:

$ tw-agent $TOWER_CONNECTION_ID
13:23:05.272 INFO - Established active environments: [cli]
13:23:05.406 ERROR- The work directory '?/work' do not exists. Create it or provide a different one using '--work-dir'.

It looks like the Tower-agent is looking for a weird work dir name, ?/work.

From the help screen, it should be ~/work.

[marcodelapierre]

This seems to be the source line in question:

https://github.com/seqeralabs/tower-agent/blob/master/src/main/java/io/seqera/tower/agent/Agent.java#L227

For some reason, System.getProperty("user.home") does not return what it should return.

[pditommaso]

We are seen crazy errors with Java native compilation and env variables. I'll leave @jordeu for a detailed response

[jordeu]

Yes, this happens only in some systems and is some how related to GraalVM native compilation. I think that the ongoing changes that we track at this issue will fix also this. I'll keep this open until we finish that GraalVM update.

[jordeu]

Also in latest releases we are also providing a tw-agent.jar file that you can run directly with a JDK v11 or above like this:

java -jar tw-agent.jar <connection_id> ...

With the pure Java version you won't have this problem.