Unexpected TagBot failures

[brenhinkeller]

Sometime between "last week" and "3 days ago", some TagBot workflows seem to have started unexpectedly failing, e.g. https://github.com/OpenThermochronology/Thermochron.jl/actions/workflows/TagBot.yml (and possibly earlier at https://github.com/JuliaTesting/ReTest.jl/actions/workflows/TagBot.yml)

[brenhinkeller]

The top-level error states "TagBot experienced an unexpected internal failure", while opening the logs yields something along the lines of

! [remote rejected] v0.3.4 -> v0.3.4 (refusing to allow a GitHub App to create or update workflow `.github/workflows/CI.yml` without `workflows` permission)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/JuliaTesting/ReTest.jl'
Error: TagBot experienced an unexpected internal failure
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/tagbot/action/__main__.py", line 96, in <module>
    repo.create_release(version, sha)
  File "/root/tagbot/action/repo.py", line 606, in create_release
    self._git.create_tag(version_tag, sha, log)
  File "/root/tagbot/action/git.py", line 107, in create_tag
    self.command("push", "origin", version)
  File "/root/tagbot/action/git.py", line 71, in command
    raise Abort(f"Git command '{cmd}' failed")
tagbot.action.Abort: Git command 'git -C /tmp/tagbot_repo_eb9jf3l7 push origin v0.3.4' failed

Response (200): {
  "status": "Submitted error report"
}
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/tagbot/action/__main__.py", line 96, in <module>
    repo.create_release(version, sha)
  File "/root/tagbot/action/repo.py", line 606, in create_release
    self._git.create_tag(version_tag, sha, log)
  File "/root/tagbot/action/git.py", line 107, in create_tag
    self.command("push", "origin", version)
  File "/root/tagbot/action/git.py", line 71, in command
    raise Abort(f"Git command '{cmd}' failed")
tagbot.action.Abort: Git command 'git -C /tmp/tagbot_repo_eb9jf3l7 push origin v0.3.4' failed

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "/root/tagbot/action/__main__.py", line 99, in <module>
    repo.handle_error(e)
  File "/root/tagbot/action/repo.py", line 646, in handle_error
    raise Abort("Cannot continue due to internal failure")
tagbot.action.Abort: Cannot continue due to internal failure

However, attempting to manually add a workflows line to the TagBot.yml does not seem to help: https://github.com/OpenThermochronology/Thermochron.jl/actions/runs/13423646562/workflow

[wylie39]

I was able to fix this by setting up an SSH Deploy Key as outlined here

[brenhinkeller]

Ah, that's good to know... The most recent attempt just succeeded without any change in the configuration on my end, so perhaps this has been fixed