Error using golang 1.18

[rodoufu]

I'm getting the error:

Installed golangci-lint into /home/runner/golangci-lint-1.43.0-linux-amd64/golangci-lint in 458ms
Prepared env in 606ms

run golangci-lint
  Running [/home/runner/golangci-lint-1.43.0-linux-amd64/golangci-lint run --out-format=github-actions] in [] ...
  panic: load embedded ruleguard rules: rules/rules.go:13: can't load fmt
  
  goroutine 1 [running]:
  github.com/go-critic/go-critic/checkers.init.9()
  	github.com/go-critic/[email protected]/checkers/checkers.go:58 +0x4b4
  
  Error: golangci-lint exit with code 2
  Ran golangci-lint in 13383ms

Which is a known issue for golangci-lint with golang v1.18.0 golangci/golangci-lint#2374

My GitHub action file is:

name: golangci-lint
on:
  push:
    tags:
      - v*
    branches:
      - master
      - main
  pull_request:
permissions:
  contents: read
jobs:
  golangci:
    name: lint
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/setup-go@v2
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: golangci-lint
        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v2
        with:
          version: v1.43

I've also tried to use:

name: golangci-lint
on:
  push:
    tags:
      - v*
    branches:
      - master
      - main
  pull_request:
permissions:
  contents: read
jobs:
  golangci:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        go-version: [1.17.x]
    name: lint
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          go-version: ${{ matrix.go }}
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: golangci-lint
        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v2
        with:
          version: v1.43

But both are failing, what can I do in that case?

[SVilgelm]

v2 of the action is used to install the lates stable Go automatically, to skip the installation of go and use the pre installed we had to use skip-go-installation parameter.
But recently we released v3 of the action, it does not install go and uses only pre-installed go.
in you case change uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v2 to uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v3 in second example

[3100]

The matrix keys do not seem to match, would correcting that solve the problem?

    strategy:
      matrix:
        go-version: [1.17.x]
    name: lint
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          go-version: ${{ matrix.go-version }}

[rhcarvalho]

I ran into a similar problem trying to update a repo to use Go 1.19 and golangci-lint v1.47.3, the latest versions as of writing.

The latest released binary of golangci-lint was built with Go 1.18 and doesn't work with Go 1.19. This action always downloads released binaries.

Workaround

I worked around the issue by building golangci-lint from source using the same Go version that I'm targeting.

Example: https://gist.github.com/rhcarvalho/9f2ae0742f5496271526b3e572da1d34

# .github/workflows/test.yml
# ...
jobs:
  # ...
  lint-go:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          # go-version: 1.19
          go-version-file: go.mod
          # The builtin cache feature ensures that installing golangci-lint
          # is consistently fast.
          cache: true
          cache-dependency-path: go.sum
      - name: Install golangci-lint
        # Install golangci-lint from source instead of using
        # golangci-lint-action to ensure the golangci-lint binary is built with
        # the same Go version we're targeting.
        # Avoids incompatibility issues such as:
        # - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/issues/2922
        # - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/issues/2673
        # - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint-action/issues/442
        run: go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/[email protected]
      - name: Run golangci-lint
        run: golangci-lint run --version --verbose --out-format=github-actions

I hope the above can help others ❤️