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error Spawn UNKOWN in Kubernetes task

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I am running into a problem with the kubernetes task. Quite frequently I receive an error Spawn UNKOWN. The task doesn’t always fail, but it does so quite frequently.

Do you have any idea what might cause the problem?

2017-06-16T09:32:59.5621981Z ##[section]Starting: kubectl apply
2017-06-16T09:32:59.5631815Z ==============================================================================
2017-06-16T09:32:59.5631815Z Task         : Deploy to Kubernetes
2017-06-16T09:32:59.5631815Z Description  : Deploy, configure, update your Kubernetes cluster in Azure Container Service by running kubectl commands.
2017-06-16T09:32:59.5631815Z Version      : 0.1.2
2017-06-16T09:32:59.5631815Z Author       : Microsoft Corporation
2017-06-16T09:32:59.5631815Z Help         : [More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=846415)
2017-06-16T09:32:59.5641828Z ==============================================================================
2017-06-16T09:32:59.9501814Z 64788582-b6e6-49a5-a731-2a1c46e9ebb0 exists true
2017-06-16T09:33:00.6651809Z ##[error]Error: spawn UNKNOWN
2017-06-16T09:33:00.6721809Z ##[section]Finishing: kubectl apply

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Created 6 years ago
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hellosricommented, Sep 17, 2018

I still notice this ##[error]spawn UNKNOWN intermittently with kubernetes tasks e.g. kubectl delete. I’m using a hosted windows VS2017 agent.

2018-09-17T15:06:54.3052029Z ##[section]Starting: Deploy Alarms 2018-09-17T15:06:54.3058633Z ============================================================================== 2018-09-17T15:06:54.3058887Z Task : Deploy to Kubernetes 2018-09-17T15:06:54.3059139Z Description : Deploy, configure, update your Kubernetes cluster in Azure Container Service by running kubectl commands. 2018-09-17T15:06:54.3059351Z Version : 0.1.26 2018-09-17T15:06:54.3059526Z Author : Microsoft Corporation 2018-09-17T15:06:54.3059715Z Help : [More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=851275) 2018-09-17T15:06:54.3059953Z ============================================================================== 2018-09-17T15:06:56.4808431Z [command]D:\a\_temp\kubectlTask\1537196814598\kubectl.exe --kubeconfig D:\a\_temp\kubectlTask\1537196814598\config apply -n default -f D:\a\r1\a\_AURA\stack\cloud\DevShared\Dev\Aura-DevAKS-Alarms.yml --namespace default 2018-09-17T15:06:58.0218553Z ##[error]spawn UNKNOWN 2018-09-17T15:06:58.0310653Z ##[section]Finishing: Deploy Alarms

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timjkellycommented, May 7, 2019

@bansalaseem This seemed to have fixed the issue. Apologies for the delayed response. Thanks for the suggestion @ajinkya599!

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