Self hosted linux pipeline runner not working started by cron

[Johannes Bauer]

Hi,

I use a self hosted Linux pipeline runner on a Ubuntu 22.04 VM.

It was working fine until I updated the machine from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04.

I start the runner with crontab. This does not work anymore after the Ubuntu update.

If I start the runner manually it works fine, with crontab it shutsdown immediatelly.

There is no information in the runner logfile:

[2023-08-01 05:31:04,339] Runner version: 1.490
[2023-08-01 05:31:04,385] Runner runtime: linux-shell
[2023-08-01 05:31:07,506] Updating runner state to "OFFLINE".
[2023-08-01 05:31:09,279] Shutdown completed

The crontab entry looks like this (with omitted secrets)

31 5 * * * cd /opt/atlassian/bitbucket-pipelines-runner/bin && ./start.sh --accountUuid {...} --runnerUuid {...} --OAuthClientId ... --OAuthClientSecret ... --runtime linux-shell --workingDirectory ../temp 

 Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[Theodora Boudale]

Hi Johannes,

Are there any error messages in the crontab logs with additional info as to why the runner is shutting down?

Kind regards,
Theodora