Gitpod: "Workspace prebuild is starting..." but nothing happens

[jankeromnes]

Describe the bug

When trying to open my repository in Gitpod, I see this "Workspace prebuild is starting ..." screen, but nothing seems to be happening even if I wait a long time:

To Reproduce

1. Try to open https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/jankeromnes/dev.to
2. See above pictured screen
3. Nothing happens (until you click on Skip prebuild)

Expected behavior

The prebuild should start and do things (or at least it shouldn't block me).

[nico-abram]

I am also experiencing this on https://gitpod.io/#github.com/nico-abram/rusty-boy-advance

EDIT: https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/jankeromnes/dev.to works for me now. Did you do anything specific to fix it?

EDIT2: I think the issue might be a prebuild command failing with a non zero return code on some line. Though an error message would be very nice.

[jankeromnes]

So, the bad news is that this is still happening sometimes (more frequently for some repositories than others).

The good news is that we believe we've found the root cause, and the fix will be deployed soon. 🎉

[geropl]

Deployed a few days ago.

[joshleblanc]

I'm still running into this. https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/joshleblanc/secret-santa/tree/master

Some possibly related information: Closing the tab and re-opening the link brings you to the "You have other workspaces open, do you want to create a new one" page.

Clicking "Open" on any of those doesn't do anything.

Clicking on the delete button throws this error in the console:

Error: Request deleteWorkspace failed with message: 2 UNKNOWN: pods "ws-d8309eff-20d1-4527-adc0-9842b4a305ef" not found
    at main.js:448
    at main.js:275
    at main.js:259
    at setImmediate.js:40
    at h (setImmediate.js:69)
    at s (setImmediate.js:109)

edit: just kept trying to skip prebuild and eventually it actually started building.