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Unable to deploy Firebase app using service account default credentials

See original GitHub issue

[REQUIRED] Environment info

firebase-tools: 7.13.0

Platform: Ubuntu on Cloudbuild from cloud-builders-community

[REQUIRED] Test case

Create any Firebase app
Attempt to deploy, using cloudbuld with a service account
Note that even if the service account is assigned the Owner role, this still fails.

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

Attempt to deploy by running firebase deploy

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

succesfully deployed.

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

Starting Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting"
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": Pulling image: gcr.io/mike-242702/firebase
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": Using default tag: latest
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": latest: Pulling from mike-242702/firebase
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 3192219afd04: Already exists
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 17c160265e75: Already exists
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": cc4fe40d0e61: Already exists
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 9d647f502a07: Already exists
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": c8bd59397b26: Already exists
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": f9289dfd19be: Already exists
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 9553b08b6292: Pulling fs layer
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 37581b1ce15a: Pulling fs layer
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 45ea08f1ad05: Pulling fs layer
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 134f3de54272: Pulling fs layer
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 2d088f82ff68: Pulling fs layer
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 134f3de54272: Waiting
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 2d088f82ff68: Waiting
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 45ea08f1ad05: Verifying Checksum
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 45ea08f1ad05: Download complete
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 37581b1ce15a: Verifying Checksum
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 37581b1ce15a: Download complete
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 2d088f82ff68: Verifying Checksum
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 2d088f82ff68: Download complete
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 134f3de54272: Verifying Checksum
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 134f3de54272: Download complete
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 9553b08b6292: Verifying Checksum
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 9553b08b6292: Download complete
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 9553b08b6292: Pull complete
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 37581b1ce15a: Pull complete
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 45ea08f1ad05: Pull complete
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 134f3de54272: Pull complete
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 2d088f82ff68: Pull complete
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": Digest: sha256:d7764e447534464a4ae049f7fa64f55ec4433a93e4a097003ab20e1b922b3d19
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": Status: Downloaded newer image for gcr.io/mike-242702/firebase:latest
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": gcr.io/mike-242702/firebase:latest
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": [2020-02-14T03:27:36.389Z] ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": [2020-02-14T03:27:36.392Z] Command:       /usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/bin/firebase deploy --project develop --debug
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": [2020-02-14T03:27:36.393Z] CLI Version:   7.7.0
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": [2020-02-14T03:27:36.393Z] Platform:      linux
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": [2020-02-14T03:27:36.393Z] Node Version:  v13.8.0
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": [2020-02-14T03:27:36.408Z] Time:          Fri Feb 14 2020 03:27:36 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": [2020-02-14T03:27:36.408Z] ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": [2020-02-14T03:27:36.409Z] 
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": [2020-02-14T03:27:36.418Z] > command requires scopes: ["email","openid","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloudplatformprojects.readonly","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/firebase","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"]
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": [2020-02-14T03:27:36.419Z] > attempting to authenticate via app default credentials
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": [2020-02-14T03:27:36.525Z] TypeError: Cannot create property 'refresh_token' on string 'Not Found
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": '
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting":     at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/google-auth-library/lib/auth/oauth2client.js:208:28
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting":     at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/google-auth-library/lib/auth/computeclient.js:85:7
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting":     at Request._callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/google-auth-library/lib/transporters.js:106:7)
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting":     at Request.self.callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/request/request.js:185:22)
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting":     at Request.emit (events.js:321:20)
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting":     at Request.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:485:12)
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting":     at Request.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/request/request.js:1154:10)
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting":     at Request.emit (events.js:321:20)
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting":     at Request.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:485:12)
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting":     at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/request/request.js:1076:12)
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": 
Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting": Error: An unexpected error has occurred.
Finished Step #4 - "Deploy to Firebase Hosting"
ERROR
ERROR: build step 4 "gcr.io/mike-242702/firebase" failed: step exited with non-zero status: 2

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Reactions:14
Comments:19 (13 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

8reactions

samtsterncommented, Feb 18, 2020

The fix for this bug has been released in version 7.13.1

5reactions

wvanderdeijlcommented, Feb 14, 2020

Thanks for the update. I am already very impressed with the very quick response times. I understand that releasing a new version on a friday as a “one man job” is not the best idea in the world. I’ll use the workaround for now and will check early next week for a new release

Thanks again!

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