CircleCI: Workflows failed with config error: "Error parsing config file: yaml: unmarshal errors"
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- resolved
Between 11:58 and 12:29 UTC workflows may have failed with a config error "Error parsing config file: yaml: unmarshal errors". Re-running these workflows should resolve the issue
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Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by CircleCI, started 2020-10-13 11:00 UTC, resolved after 0 min, 1 update(s).
- Title
- Workflows failed with config error: "Error parsing config file: yaml: unmarshal errors"
- Vendor
- CircleCI
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/circleci/incidents/l9q26msk7kqc
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