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In my case I was running colcon build form inside the src directory in my workspace.
Like this:

~/ros2_ws/src$ colcon build

Running colcon build in the workspace root solved the issue:

cd ~/ros2_ws
colcon build
source install/setup.bash

and finally

ros2 run [package_name] [executable_name]

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