SonarScanner for MSBuild fails to read sonar-project.properties due to potential formatting issues,

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Description:
I am running SonarScanner for MSBuild in my GitHub Actions workflow, but it fails with the following error:

SonarScanner for MSBuild 9.0.2  
Using the .NET Core version of the Scanner for MSBuild  
Unable to read the analysis settings file '/home/runner/work/avro-adapter/avro-adapter/sonar-project.properties'.  
Please fix the content of this file.  
Loading analysis properties from /home/runner/work/avro-adapter/avro-adapter/sonar-project.properties  
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Steps I am following:

Here is the relevant part of my workflow:

yaml

dotnet-sonarscanner begin /k:"<project KEY>" \
                /o:"<organisation key>" \
                /d:sonar.token="${{ secrets.SONAR_CLOUD_TOKEN }}" \
                /d:sonar.cs.analyzeGeneratedCode=true \
                /d:sonar.host.url="https://sonarcloud.io" \
                /d:sonar.verbose=true \
                /d:sonar.scanner.scanAll=false \
                /s:"/home/runner/work/avro-adapter/avro-adapter/sonar-project.properties"

dotnet clean
dotnet build --no-incremental
dotnet publish -c Release -o avro-adapter/bin/Release/netcoreapp3.1/publish
dotnet test --collect "Code Coverage"

dotnet-sonarscanner end /d:sonar.token="${{ secrets.SONAR_CLOUD_TOKEN }}"

What I have checked so far:

  1. File existence & permissions:
  • ls -l /home/runner/work/avro-adapter/avro-adapter/sonar-project.properties confirms the file exists with -rw-r--r-- permissions.
  1. File encoding:
  • Checked with file -bi and confirmed it’s UTF-8.
  1. Property file correctness:
  • Contents of sonar-project.properties:
sonar.projectKey=<proj key>
sonar.organization=<org key>
sonar.host.url=https://sonarcloud.io
sonar.sources=.
sonar.cs.analyzeGeneratedCode=true
sonar.verbose=true
  1. Removed sonar.language=cs as it is deprecated.
  2. Ensured there are no extra spaces or invalid characters.

Question:

What could be causing this issue? Are there any additional debugging steps I can try?

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Hi,

Welcome to the community!

Who owns that file? What happens if you delete it and run again?

 
Ann