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Hi Team,
I'm trying to set up Drift Detection or schedule a command like `pulumi preview`, but I'm encountering the following error:
`Error: failed to get runtime: failed to select stack: chdir /deployment/iac/config: no such file or directory`
What could be the cause of this issue, and what are the possible solutions?
Please note that the `Pulumi.yaml` file is present at the specified location.

Thanks,
Vallabh

There is no directory `/deployment/iac/config`. If you can see that directory but whatever script you're running can't, then you need to figure out why. Perhaps you're running something in a container and the paths are different?

Hi <@U012UJTT55M>, this directory is set as --workDir="/deployment" by Pulumi and the code is cloned successfully.

This is the output I see in GetSource step for the deployment:

$ /pulumi-deploy-executor getsource git --repoURL="&lt;repoURL&gt;" --workDir="/deployment" --username="$PULUMI_DEPLOY_USERNAME" --password="$PULUMI_DEPLOY_PASSWORD" --branch="refs/heads/drift-test" --repoDir="iac/config"
 Successfully cloned: &lt;repoURL&gt;

`chdir /deployment/iac/config: no such file or directory` is fairly unamibiguous. It's not even a Pulumi error, it's a system error (chdir is a system call). You need to figure out what bit of your scripts and logic is calling this bit. Maybe it's happening in a different thread? Maybe it's running on a remote machine? I can't tell. But something, somewhere, cannot find that directory.