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Failure to retrieve username: Ls [HttpError]: fetch failed

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, typescript, vscode

Research direction

Start by reproducing the hover-triggered failure in a workflow file with GitHub Actions extension 0.27.0, then inspect the reported calls in dist/server-node.js and the request to https://api.github.com/user. Compare the behavior with issue #282. Done means hover validation no longer repeatedly shows an error or produces fetch-failed output.

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Description

bug

Describe the bug
When I am editing a workflow file, and my mouse moves, I get an error box pup up repeatedly. It can pop up several times over the course of a single pointer movement down the file.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Edit any workflow file
  2. Hover over any any of several steps/components of the workflow
  3. See error

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When the popup occurs, I get this in the OUTPUT tab:

Failure to retrieve username:  Ls [HttpError]: fetch failed
    at /Users/user/.vscode/extensions/github.vscode-github-actions-0.27.0/dist/server-node.js:2:2789085
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at async /Users/user/.vscode/extensions/github.vscode-github-actions-0.27.0/dist/server-node.js:2:2861044
    at async ka.get (/Users/user/.vscode/extensions/github.vscode-github-actions-0.27.0/dist/server-node.js:2:2871213)
    at async /Users/user/.vscode/extensions/github.vscode-github-actions-0.27.0/dist/server-node.js:2:2860979
    at async ca (/Users/user/.vscode/extensions/github.vscode-github-actions-0.27.0/dist/server-node.js:2:2860946)
    at async /Users/user/.vscode/extensions/github.vscode-github-actions-0.27.0/dist/server-node.js:2:2864782
    at async Object.getContext (/Users/user/.vscode/extensions/github.vscode-github-actions-0.27.0/dist/server-node.js:2:2864738)
    at async oi (/Users/user/.vscode/extensions/github.vscode-github-actions-0.27.0/dist/server-node.js:2:2727430)
    at async /Users/user/.vscode/extensions/github.vscode-github-actions-0.27.0/dist/server-node.js:2:2874871 {
  status: 500,
  request: {
    method: 'GET',
    url: 'https://api.github.com/user',
    headers: {
      accept: 'application/vnd.github.v3+json',
      'user-agent': 'VS Code GitHub Actions (0.27.0) octokit-rest.js/19.0.7 octokit-core.js/4.1.0 Node.js/20.16.0 (darwin; arm64)',
      authorization: 'token [REDACTED]'
    },
    request: { hook: [Function: bound bound e] }
  }
}
[Error - 10:04:44 AM] Request textDocument/hover failed.
  Message: Request textDocument/hover failed with message: fetch failed
  Code: -32603

I tried following the advice in https://github.com/github/vscode-github-actions/issues/282, but that did not help. However, after disabling GitHub Actions, restarting Extensions and enabling GitHub Actions, I got this similar error in the OUTPUT (only differences posted):

Failure to retrieve username:  Ls [HttpError]: fetch failed
    .
    .
    at async _n (/Users/user/.vscode/extensions/github.vscode-github-actions-0.27.0/dist/server-node.js:2:2763253) {
    .
    .
}
[Error - 10:10:37 AM] Unhandled error while validating: fetch failed

Additional context
macOS Sonoma 14.7
The GitHub Actions activity bar icon works fine

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