## Problem After the release of v0.17.0, our pipelines using steps hosted in another repository on same GitLab instance started failing with the following message (details redacted). ``` Error: failed to run steps: step "step00": failed to load: fetching git step: storing SHA for ref "feature/test00": open /tmp/step-runner-cache/selfmanaged.gitlab.company.org/group/project/.refs/feature/test00.sha: no such file or directory ``` Reverting to v0.16.0 resolves the issue. Note that we build our own image and execute the job using that. Our image acquires `step-runner` from `registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/step-runner` with the following Dockerfile directive. ```Dockerfile COPY --from=registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/step-runner:latest /step-runner /usr/bin/ ``` ## Failure Behavior Job fails at first attempt to execute a step with the following output. ``` Executing "step_script" stage of the job script 00:01 $ step-runner ci ***** WARNING ***** As of GitLab Runner 17.11, the legacy step-runner image registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/step-runner:v0 is replaced by the image defined by the job. The legacy step-runner image will be supported until GitLab 18.0. See https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/steps/ for information on how to configure CI/CD Steps. ***** END WARNING ***** Error: failed to run steps: step "step00": failed to load: fetching git step: storing SHA for ref "feature/test00": open /tmp/step-runner-cache/selfmanaged.gitlab.company.org/group/project/.refs/feature/test00.sha: no such file or directory ``` ## Steps to Reproduce Minimal steps to reproduce TBD, if needed. Some clues, though, are that we have one repository that contains a template and steps and several other repositories that utilize it. The template is pulled into the desired pipelines as a component. The template then expands the jobs that reference the steps. The steps are referenced via HTTP. e.g. _not a full example, just a minimal snippet_ ``` Run Stuff: image: name: custom-step-runner-image run: - name: step00 step: https://oauth2:${{job.CI_PULL_TOKEN}}@${{job.CI_SERVER_FQDN}}/group/project/-/step00@feature/test00 ```