Issues Running GitHub Actions Locally with act on Apple M1 Chip

[nh916]

Hello everyone,

I'm encountering a problem when trying to run GitHub Actions locally using act on my MacBook with an Apple M-series chip. I have Docker installed and am trying to run the workflow with the following command:

act -j mypy-check --container-architecture linux/amd64

However, the process seems to hang indefinitely, with the last output being related to Docker pulling an image:

[MyPy Type Check/MyPy Type Checking] 🚀 Start image=catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest platform=linux/amd64 username= forcePull=true
[MyPy Type Check/MyPy Type Checking]   🐳 docker pull image=catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest platform=linux/amd64 username= forcePull=true
[MyPy Type Check/MyPy Type Checking] Using DockerAuthConfig authentication for Docker pull

Here are the steps I've taken so far:

• Ensured Docker is running and can pull images on my machine.
• Checked my network connection, which is stable and without any issues.
• Logged into the Docker desktop client

Is there any additional configuration I need to do for act to work with Docker on an Apple M-series chip? Or are there any known issues with Docker image compatibility?

I would appreciate any insights or suggestions on how to resolve this hang-up.

Thank you!

[madisonleavo]

I am running on M1 with no issues. might be worth pulling that image manually? it is pretty large.
and once I have the image, I do set --pull=false

i'm not sure what the -j mypy-check is doing. you can try running act with -v to see if there are any more clues.

% act --version
act version 0.2.59

% docker --version
Docker version 24.0.7, build afdd53b