Travis fails with "Your build exited with 86."

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Travis suddenly fails with the following:

Worker information
hostname: fc0d617b-ff8d-4b9b-a926-e9a048937681@1.worker-com-77564c74fb-j7trz.gce-production-2
version: 6.2.22 https://github.com/travis-ci/worker/tree/858cb91994a513269f2fe9782c15fc113e966231
instance: travis-job-fd9f8db0-9e66-470e-b01c-9bd1328266b1 travis-ci-sardonyx-xenial-1593004276-4d46c6b3 (via amqp)
startup: 6.423674619s
/home/travis/.travis/job_stages: line 13: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'
/home/travis/.travis/job_stages: line 1075: syntax error: unexpected end of file
travis_run_setup_filter: command not found
...
travis_run_finish: command not found
Done. Your build exited with 86.

I’m getting the same error with an almost empty .travis.yml:

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This looks to be global and failing all builds.

I hit the same starting last night.
Travis status page doesn’t show anything.

Is this being looked upon?

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Yeah our builds also started failing on Saturday. The earliest I see is a cron build on Saturday night Pacific Time but it could be that the builds have been broken earlier than that.

/home/travis/.travis/job_stages: line 531: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
/home/travis/.travis/job_stages: line 531: `}'
travis_run_setup_filter: command not found
travis_run_configure: command not found
travis_run_prepare: command not found
travis_run_disable_sudo: command not found
travis_run_checkout: command not found
travis_run_export: command not found
travis_run_setup: command not found
travis_run_setup_casher: command not found
travis_run_setup_cache: command not found
travis_run_use_workspaces: command not found
travis_run_announce: command not found
travis_run_debug: command not found
travis_run_before_install: command not found
travis_run_install: command not found
travis_run_before_script: command not found
travis_run_script: command not found
travis_run_before_cache: command not found
travis_run_create_workspaces: command not found
travis_run_cache: command not found
travis_run_after_success: command not found
travis_run_after_failure: command not found
travis_run_after_script: command not found
travis_run_finish: command not found
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We are facing the same issue.

Nothing in the status page, tho:

https://www.traviscistatus.com/

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I’ve reported this to “Travis-CI Support” (support@travis-ci.com) but other than the automated email confirmation there’s been no response yet. Also no reaction to tweets to @traviscistatus and @travisci.

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We came across the same problem and found a workaround.

We have encrypted environment variables configured in .travis.yml and some of them contain punctuations like {}:"/ in their values. (I’m not sure which one is precisely problematic)

Removing the environment variables fixed the problem.

I’m not sure if it applies to all cases but I hope it’s useful.

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This wouldn’t be a workaround.
As pointed out in the discussion, this is seen even for an almost empty .travis.yml with just linux distribution.

dist: trusty
os: linux
python: "3.6"

before_install:
  - echo $TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST_BRANCH; echo ${TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST_SHA}
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Deleting the environment variable which contains '{"envs":[{"name":"ve... does avoid this error. A work-around of base64 encoding the environment variable and decoding it in the deploy script seems to work:

(part of) bash script to set env var:

  travisEnvValue=`echo -n "${sqt}{\"envs\":[{\"name\":\"${ve... | base64 -w 0`
  echo "travisEnvName: ${travisEnvName}"
  echo "travisEnvValue: ${travisEnvValue}"
  travis env set ${travisEnvName} "${travisEnvValue}"

(part of) bash deploy script:

travisSecret="${environment}_xyz"
echo "travisSecret: ${!travisSecret}"
echo "decoding travisSecret..."
xyz=`echo "${!travisSecret}" | base64 --decode`
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Thank you! It needs to be changed in GUI settings as well as mine had it there.

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Using the Travis CLI to set environment variables with the travis env set myVar myValue command is just an alternative to using the GUI to do the same.

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Yes, mine had env vars both using travis CLI (.travis.yml) and some in GUI directly and hence didn’t catch with an empty file.

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Having the same issues, builds failing since Saturday. Any long-term solutions?

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I am no longer seeing the issue. I restarted a failed build and it’s running now. Not sure if they did something to fix it.

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Hey all,

We have been working on this case and deployed a fix that should be resolved this issue. Restarting related build/job would be effective.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Thanks.

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@mustafa was it an error or was it intended? Due the solution being related to a certain type of escaped keys