Build fails with "Action failed: Configure the build"

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Hi!

My build was running fine with all it’s tests passing. Now i’ve “just” added deployment to heroku and it crashes when configuring the build.

Anyone got an idea?

Cheers, kai

machine:
node:
version: 4.3.0
environment:
NODE_ENV: test
test:
pre:
- npm i -g npm
- npm i -g grunt-cli karma-cli bower gulp-cli
- gem install sass
- gem install compass
- npm i
- NODE_ENV=ci node server/bin/syncDb.js
override:
- NODE_ENV=ci npm test
deployment:
prod:
branch: master
heroku:
appname: api-flot-to

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I’ve just encountered the same issue: added a deployment section and my next build failed with that same error message. Did you manage to figure out what the issue is? That error message is useless.

Edit: In my case, I had a single space before the “—” at the start of my yaml file. Removing that space fixed the issue for me.

3

I had an extra colon in my test config sections in the circle.yml file.
test:
override:
- tox:
Removing that fixed the issues
test:
override:
- tox
Hop this helps, but in most cases it will just be a issue with your circle.yml structure

4

Lint your circleci for potential whitespace issue.

http://yaml-online-parser.appspot.com/

5

It looks like this can also be caused by an invalid package.json.