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Salesforce deployment using sf command in Github workflow fails with error message : The user aborted a request.

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, shell
Domain
ci-cd, cli

Research direction

Start by running the GitHub workflow steps shown in the report, observing both sf org login jwt and sf project deploy start output around the 22-minute authentication delay. Done means identifying and resolving the intermittent The user aborted a request failure so the deployment starts reliably.

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Description

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Summary
IMP This is an intermittent issue
I have a Github Workflow that deploys a branch in Github to Salesforce and during deployment it fails with error message "The user aborted a request."

Steps To Reproduce

I am using below steps this workflow:

  • name: Install Salesforce CLI
    run: |
    mkdir -p ~/sf
    wget https://developer.salesforce.com/media/salesforce-cli/sf/channels/stable/sf-linux-x64.tar.xz
    tar xJf sf-linux-x64.tar.xz -C ~/sf --strip-components 1
    echo "$HOME/sf/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
    ~/sf/bin/sf --version

    - name: Authenticate to Salesforce DevelopDev Sandbox
  run: |
    echo "${{ secrets.SERVER_KEY }}" > server.key
    sf org login jwt \
      --username ${{ secrets.DEPLOYMENT_USERNAME }} \
      --jwt-key-file server.key \
      --client-id ${{ secrets.CONSUMER_KEY }} \
      --instance-url ${{ vars.INSTANCE_URL }} \
      --set-default \
      --alias DevSandbox

- name: Deploy and run Apex tests (verbose, wait up to 5 hours for job to finish)
  run: |
    sf project deploy start \
      --source-dir force-app \
      --target-org DevSandbox \
      --test-level RunLocalTests \
      --ignore-conflicts \
      --ignore-warnings \
      --wait 300 \
      --verbose
Expected result

The deployment should initiate by deploying develop branch to salesforce sandbox.

Actual result

Authentication is successful but it takes 22 minutes to authenticate against a sandbox and then the deployment never gets initiated in Salesforce and the deployment fails with error message "The user aborted a request."
This issue is intermittent and does not happen all the times.

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