Github token results in Permission denied to github-actions

[henryiii]

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I'm setting this up for a jupyterbook (new beta version). When I add this for the first time in a repo using GITHUB_TOKEN (normally I push across repos so have not been able to use the token method for actions-gh-pages before), I get the CI error: "Permission to scikit-hep/scikit-hep-tutorials.git denied to github-actions". I've tried adding a gh-pages branch in the repo, and it doesn't change (mostly rerunning the action without a new commit). I do notice that:

/usr/bin/git remote rm origin
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  fatal: No such remote: 'origin'
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  [INFO] The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128

Shows up earlier, but I don't think that's a problem, as it seems to continue after that. Here's the problem part:

/usr/bin/git push origin --force gh-pages
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  remote: Permission to scikit-hep/scikit-hep-tutorials.git denied to github-actions[bot].
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  fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/scikit-hep/scikit-hep-tutorials.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403
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  ##[error]Action failed with "The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128"

I think this is likely a user error, but I don't see what I might have broken. The initial setup in the logs looks fine. I've tried the 3.5.9 version recommended in the jupyter-book docs, and the latest version.

Link to your contents

• Repo: https://github.com/scikit-hep/scikit-hep-tutorials
• Workflow: https://github.com/scikit-hep/scikit-hep-tutorials/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci.yml
• Workflow run: https://github.com/scikit-hep/scikit-hep-tutorials/runs/700284075?check_suite_focus=true

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[peaceiris]

GitHub is down now. Try it again later.
actions/checkout#254

[henryiii]

Just my luck, perfect timing. :)

[peaceiris]

Sorry, do not mind. I was waked up by many CI errors at midnight. I am so sleepy I misunderstood.

[jrappen]

https://www.githubstatus.com/ looks bad at the moment.

[peaceiris]

This issue was a temporary problem caused by the degradation of GitHub.

Thanks all for reporting!

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