[JENKINS-71862] Scan fails on Could not fetch branches from source.

Scan fails. see log below.

I tried several Jenkins secrets. All with same App ID and Key. Some work and some fail as below.

Printing the secrets from the script console, I noticed that thous that work has a value in their properties.password field, while those that fail does not.

Thanks,

  Ziv

 

 

From scan log:

ERROR: [Mon Aug 21 08:16:46 IDT 2023] Could not fetch branches from ...

FATAL: Failed to recompute children of ...

org.kohsuke.github.HttpException:

{"message":"Bad credentials","documentation_url":"

[https://docs.github.com/rest]

"}

Caused: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Couldn't authenticate with GitHub app ID ...

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Originally reported by zharpaz, imported from: Scan fails on Could not fetch branches from source.

• status: Open
  
• priority: Minor
  
• component(s): github-branch-source-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 1
  
• imported: 2025-12-02
  

Raw content of original issue

Scan fails. see log below.

I tried several Jenkins secrets. All with same App ID and Key. Some work and some fail as below.

Printing the secrets from the script console, I noticed that thous that work has a value in their properties.password field, while those that fail does not.


Thanks,


  Ziv


 


 


From scan log:


ERROR: [Mon Aug 21 08:16:46 IDT 2023] Could not fetch branches from ...


FATAL: Failed to recompute children of ...


org.kohsuke.github.HttpException: 

{"message":"Bad credentials","documentation_url":"


[https://docs.github.com/rest]

"}

Caused: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Couldn't authenticate with GitHub app ID ...

environment

```
OS:Linux 3.10.0-514.16.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 12 15:04:24 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Jenkins 2.401.1

GitHub API Plugin Version 1.314-431.v78d72a_3fe4c3

GitHub Branch Source Version 2.9.5

GitHub Organization Folder Plugin Version 1.6

Pipeline: GitHub Groovy Libraries Version 1.0
```