Prebuild fails with non-userfriendly error message
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meta: never-stale
team: webapp
type: improvement
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Description
Bug description
Prebuild fails with non-userfriendly error message "Error: headless task failed: exit status 1".
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Conditions
- On-fly launching workspace on the branch will fail as well.
Steps to reproduce
- Enable a project (from https://gitpod.io/new?user=1) if you do not have yet.
- Access to https://gitpod.io/projects/your-project/prebuilds.
- Click "Run Prebuild (branch-name)" from vertical ellipsis next to branch name (non-default branch like
masterormain) - Wait for a while to see the system error
Workspace affected
No response
Expected behavior
User-friednly error message is expected.
Example repository
https://github.com/tnir/forem/tree/jammy-on-dev
Anything else?
No response
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the failure from the prebuilds page with the linked forem repository and a non-default branch. Trace the prebuild or on-the-fly workspace launch path that produces “headless task failed: exit status 1,” then identify what user-facing failure details are available. Done means the same failure presents a useful, user-friendly error message.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- cloud, developer-experience, devops
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100