# Mender-cli artifacts upload \`FAILURE: POST EOF\` when running in GitHub Actions **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Tags:** error, mender-cli\ **Created:** [April 29, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-cli-artifacts-upload-failure-post-eof-when-running-in-github-actions/3566 "2021-04-29T01:14:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![marekl](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/marekl/32/643_2.png) [@marekl](https://hub.mender.io/u/marekl)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-cli-artifacts-upload-failure-post-eof-when-running-in-github-actions/3566/1 "2021-04-29T01:14:50Z")
Hi Folks, I’m trying to setup a CI pipeline for my device OTA updates using hosted Mender and I’m having some difficulty getting artifact uploads working from a GitHub Actions workflow. The TLDR is that running `mender-cli artifacts upload` from a GitHub Actions workflow always ends with the following error: ```auto FAILURE: POST /artifacts request failed: Post "https://hosted.mender.io/api/management/v1/deployments/artifacts": EOF ``` The artifact is 2.1 GiB and uploading from my dev machine or through the browser UI works fine. The issue only occurs when uploading from a GitHub Actions workflow. I have a script wrapping the invocation of `mender-cli` but the commands that get run are as follows: ```auto mender-cli login --username ' ***' --password '***' mender-cli artifacts upload --description "Company Device box-v0_8_057" "/home/runner/work/company/device/app/mender-convert/deploy/box-v0_8_057-x86_64-mender.mender" ``` The `.mender` file is generated using the dockerized version of `mender-convert`: ```auto ./docker-mender-convert --disk-image input/box-v0_8_057.img --config configs/box-config-for-mender-convert --overlay box_rootfs_overlay ``` And the base image is generated using `mkosi`. Running the same set of commands on my dev machine results in the artifact getting uploaded to hosted Mender without any issues so the error is somehow related to the fact that the upload is happening from a GitHub Actions workflow. The major differences between the GHA workflow and my dev machine as far as I can tell are: - My home upload speed maxes out at `4 MiB` while the GHA workflow uploads the artifact at `26.68 MiB` - The CI mender user has the `Releases Manager, Deployments Manager` roles while my mender account has the `Admin` role The GHA workflow runs in a `ubuntu-20.04` VM with `mender-cli` version 1.7.0 installed from [https://downloads.mender.io/mender-cli/1.7.0/linux/mender-cli](https://downloads.mender.io/mender-cli/1.7.0/linux/mender-cli) I looked at some of the topics on mender hub mentioning similar issues but none of them seem to offer a solution to my problem. I’ve attached the full output of the `mender-cli artifacts upload` invocation from the GHA workflow: [mender-artifact-upload-gha-error-log.yaml](https://hub.mender.io/uploads/short-url/zO4ohW52JG3wdhTFYpzoccIe10U.yaml) (666.0 KB) Any input or suggestions on how to get this working are very welcome. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![drewmoseley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/drewmoseley/32/47_2.png) [@drewmoseley](https://hub.mender.io/u/drewmoseley)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-cli-artifacts-upload-failure-post-eof-when-running-in-github-actions/3566/2 "2021-04-29T13:51:39Z")
@tranchitella @peter any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![peter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://hub.mender.io/u/peter)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-cli-artifacts-upload-failure-post-eof-when-running-in-github-actions/3566/3 "2021-04-29T16:36:18Z")
hello @marekl thank you for using Mender. as an additional test, did you try to use curl to upload the artifact? e.g.: ```auto jwt=`curl -vvv -k -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json;" -u 'user:pass' https://hosted.mender.io/api/management/v1/useradm/auth/login`; curl -vvv https://hosted.mender.io/api/management/v1/deployments/artifacts -H "Authorization: Bearer ${jwt}" -H "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" -F artifact=@box-v0_8_057-x86_64-mender.mender; ``` best regards, peter ---
**Author:** ![marekl](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/marekl/32/643_2.png) [@marekl](https://hub.mender.io/u/marekl)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-cli-artifacts-upload-failure-post-eof-when-running-in-github-actions/3566/4 "2021-05-03T22:03:59Z")
Hi @peter, Thanks for the suggestion! Using curl to upload the artifact as you recommend works without issue. I’ve had multiple successful CI runs now. I still have no idea why using `mender-cli` did not work but this solution works for me. Regards, Marek ---
**Author:** ![doudou](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/doudou/32/497_2.png) [@doudou](https://hub.mender.io/u/doudou)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-cli-artifacts-upload-failure-post-eof-when-running-in-github-actions/3566/5 "2021-05-06T16:27:38Z")
I’m having the same overall problem (fail to upload with mender-cli, works with the browser), but this time with a different error. In my case, I’m getting a Entity Too Large message from openresty. It works with the browser and the curl solution. Fails with mender-cli. The mender server is self-hosted. I’m running mender-cli on the same host than the server. mender-cli is 1.7.0, mender server 1.6.0