Sometimes get 'Text file busy' error while creating virtualenv

[davidshepherd7]

Hi, for one particular action we're seeing this fail during virtualenv setup with the error

OSError: [Errno 26] Text file busy: '/github/home/.local/share/virtualenvs/-x-v5uFv0/bin/python'

which, if I'm interpreting it correctly, probably means that another process is using the virtualenv while it is being setup. However I can't see any other places that would be running a python process here, and particularly not any that are running inside pipenv. Do you have any idea what could be causing this?

Here's the action in question:

action "create follow up issue" {
  uses = "swinton/httpie.action@master"
  secrets = ["GITHUB_TOKEN"]
  needs = ["if comment is /improve"]
  args = [
    "--auth-type=jwt",
    "--auth=$GITHUB_TOKEN",
    "POST",
    "`jq .issue.repository_url $GITHUB_EVENT_PATH --raw-output`/issues",
    "labels:=[\\\"review:is-follow-up\\\"]",
    "assignees:=[\\\"`jq .issue.user.login $GITHUB_EVENT_PATH --raw-output`\\\"]",
    "title=\"Follow up on '`jq .issue.title $GITHUB_EVENT_PATH --raw-output`'\"",
    "body=\"Original PR: #`jq .issue.number $GITHUB_EVENT_PATH --raw-output`.\"",
  ]
}

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Step 14/17 : RUN apt-get update -y &&   apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends jq &&   rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* &&   pip install --upgrade pip &&   pip install --upgrade pipenv &&   pipenv install --deploy --system
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Creating a virtualenv for this project…
Pipfile: /Pipfile
Using /usr/local/bin/python (3.7.4) to create virtualenv…

⠋ Creating virtual environment...�
⠙ Creating virtual environment...�
⠹ Creating virtual environment...Already using interpreter /usr/local/bin/python
Using base prefix '/usr/local'
New python executable in /github/home/.local/share/virtualenvs/-x-v5uFv0/bin/python

�✘ Failed creating virtual environment 
[pipenv.exceptions.VirtualenvCreationException]:   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/cli/command.py", line 408, in run
[pipenv.exceptions.VirtualenvCreationException]:       command=command, args=args, three=state.three, python=state.python, pypi_mirror=state.pypi_mirror
[pipenv.exceptions.VirtualenvCreationException]:   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/core.py", line 2310, in do_run
[pipenv.exceptions.VirtualenvCreationException]:       three=three, python=python, validate=False, pypi_mirror=pypi_mirror,
[pipenv.exceptions.VirtualenvCreationException]:   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/core.py", line 574, in ensure_project
[pipenv.exceptions.VirtualenvCreationException]:       pypi_mirror=pypi_mirror,
[pipenv.exceptions.VirtualenvCreationException]:   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/core.py", line 506, in ensure_virtualenv
[pipenv.exceptions.VirtualenvCreationException]:       python=python, site_packages=site_packages, pypi_mirror=pypi_mirror
[pipenv.exceptions.VirtualenvCreationException]:   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/core.py", line 935, in do_create_virtualenv
[pipenv.exceptions.VirtualenvCreationException]:       extra=[crayons.blue("{0}".format(c.err)),]
[pipenv.exceptions.VirtualenvCreationException]: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 2619, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 867, in main
    symlink=options.symlink,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1142, in create_environment
    install_python(home_dir, lib_dir, inc_dir, bin_dir, site_packages=site_packages, clear=clear, symlink=symlink)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1512, in install_python
    shutil.copyfile(executable, py_executable)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/shutil.py", line 121, in copyfile
    with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
OSError: [Errno 26] Text file busy: '/github/home/.local/share/virtualenvs/-x-v5uFv0/bin/python'

Failed to create virtual environment.

### FAILED label review:needs-follow-up 15:40:07Z (41.288s)

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