An error occurred while running semantic-release: Error: Command failed with exit code 128:

Current behavior

I am getting this error too often.

Sometimes if I delete the tags manually it makes new publish. On my last try 5 consecutive trials have failed. Its very annoying. Almost 50% of my release attempts fail by this error and Its not even clear why it fails.

Expected behavior

make new release

semantic-release version

^17.3.0

CI environment

gitlab

Plugins used

"@semantic-release/git": "^9.0.0",
"@semantic-release/gitlab": "^6.0.5",
"@semantic-release/npm": "^7.0.8",

semantic-release configuration

{
"branches": [
"master"
],
"plugins": [
"@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
"@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
[
"@semantic-release/gitlab",
{
"assets": [
{
"path": "index.js",
"label": "Module"
},
{
"path": "README.md",
"label": "Documentation"
},
{
"path": "LICENSE",
"label": "License"
}
]
}
],
"@semantic-release/npm",
[
"@semantic-release/git",
{
"assets": [
"package.json"
],
"message": "chore(release): ${nextRelease.version} [skip ci]\n\n${nextRelease.notes}"
}
]
]
}

CI logs

An error occurred while running semantic-release: Error: Command failed with exit code 128: git push [https://gitlab-ci-token:[secure]@gitlab***](https://gitlab-ci-token:%5Bsecure%5D@gitlab***) refs/notes/semantic-release remote: Retry later fatal: unable to access 'https://gitlab***': The requested URL returned error: 429

Start with the CI log showing the git push to refs/notes/semantic-release and the GitLab 429 response. Review the listed semantic-release plugins and configuration, then compare successful and failed release attempts to identify the failure condition. Done means documenting an actionable cause and verifying that releases no longer fail intermittently or require manual tag deletion.