# CircleCI: Workflows failed with config error: "Error parsing config file: yaml: unmarshal errors"

> CircleCI status incident “Workflows failed with config error: "Error parsing config file: yaml: unmarshal errors"” on 2020-10-13: impact minor (vendor’s label), 0 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/circleci/incidents/l9q26msk7kqc
Last updated: 2020-10-13T11:00:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2020-10-13 11:00 UTC · Resolved: 2020-10-13 11:00 UTC · Duration: 0 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://status.circleci.com/incidents/l9q26msk7kqc](https://status.circleci.com/incidents/l9q26msk7kqc)
- [Company: CircleCI](https://rewindex.com/company/circleci.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2020-10-13 11:00 UTC: 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

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by CircleCI, started 2020-10-13 11:00 UTC, resolved after 0 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/circleci/incidents/l9q26msk7kqc
- Citation: CircleCI, “Workflows failed with config error: "Error parsing config file: yaml: unmarshal errors"” (2020-10-13 11:00 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/circleci/incidents/l9q26msk7kqc (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[CircleCI: Workflows failed with config error: "Error parsing config file: yaml: unmarshal errors" (2020-10-13)](https://rewindex.com/company/circleci/incidents/l9q26msk7kqc)`


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