My Jenkins uses mainly Github App as credentials. Recently I had an issue with those Github Apps used as credentials for Repository URL:
- Job → Configure:
Failed to connect to repository : Command "/usr/bin/git ls-remote -h -- https://github.com/owner/repo HEAD" returned status code 128:
stdout:
stderr: remote: Repository not found.
fatal: Authentication failed for ' https://github.com/owner/repos/ '
- After build:
Started by user USER
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "/usr/bin/git fetch --tags --force --progress --prune -- origin +refs/heads/main:refs/remotes/origin/main" returned status code 128:
stdout:
stderr: remote: Repository not found.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/owner/repo/'
at PluginClassLoader for git-client//org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2852)
at PluginClassLoader for git-client//org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandWithCredentials(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2193)
at PluginClassLoader for git-client//org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$1.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:638)
at PluginClassLoader for git//jenkins.plugins.git.GitSCMFileSystem$BuilderImpl.build(GitSCMFileSystem.java:404)
Caused: java.io.IOException
at PluginClassLoader for git//jenkins.plugins.git.GitSCMFileSystem$BuilderImpl.build(GitSCMFileSystem.java:409)
at PluginClassLoader for scm-api//jenkins.scm.api.SCMFileSystem.of(SCMFileSystem.java:219)
at PluginClassLoader for workflow-cps//org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScmFlowDefinition.create(CpsScmFlowDefinition.java:123)
at PluginClassLoader for workflow-cps//org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScmFlowDefinition.create(CpsScmFlowDefinition.java:70)
at PluginClassLoader for workflow-job//org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.job.WorkflowRun.run(WorkflowRun.java:342)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:456)
Recently I’ve upgraded plugin Github Branch Source to 1986.v801e40614d00 from 1983.vfa_27ed961853 and it seems ok but this issue occurs non-deterministically.
Jenkins setup:
Jenkins installed via rpm on RHEL9, started via systemd.
git --version
git version 2.52.0
Jenkins: 2.568.3
OS: Linux - 5.14.0-687.57.1.el9_8.x86_64
Java: 25.0.4.1 - Eclipse Adoptium (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM)
Plugins:
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