Check failing with exit status 2

[dlbock]

Concourse version: 7.2.0
Running on GKE 1.19.13-gke.700
git-resource configuration:

• uri: https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>.git
• username: github-api-token
• password: x-oauth-basic

I've been seeing the following error on checks, and they come and go:

run check: check: backend error: Exit status: 500, message: {"Type":"","Message":"exit status 2","Handle":"","ProcessID":"","Binary":""}

Not much to go on, I know 😢 . I tried searching through this repository for any phrase that might match that message ☝️ in order to figure out why this is happening, to no avail. GitHub API returning 500s? Any thoughts?

[dlbock]

If it is indeed the GitHub API returning 500s (GitHub was having operational issues today, Aug 10 2021), I think a more self-explanatory error message besides exit status 2 will be helpful? 🙏

[dlbock]

Hrm, turns out this isn't related to the git-resource specifically as I'm seeing the same error message being returned in the check for an s3-resource as well