Error when deploying DAB

[japhyf]

Describe the issue

Getting unexpected error message when trying to deploy DAB:
Failed to read remote state file: invalid character '<' looking for genning of object key string

Code deployed successfully this morning, no change in our code between then and now.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Please list the steps required to reproduce the issue, for example:

1. Run databricks bundle deploy -t dev
2. See error

Expected Behavior

Deployment successful!

Actual Behavior

Error message: Failed to read remote state file: invalid character '<' looking for genning of object key string

OS and CLI version

CLI version 0.241.2

Is this a regression?

This worked this morning on 0.240, but then also failed on 0.240. We updated to try and fix the issue, but it persisted.

Debug Logs

13:53:18 Debug: GET /api/2.0/workspace/export?direct_download=true&path=/Workspace/Users/USERNAME/MDP/.bundle/mdp_bundle/dev/state/terraform.tfstate
< HTTP/2.0 200 OK
< pid=14472 mutator=seq mutator=deploy mutator=seq mutator=seq mutator=deferred mutator=seq mutator=terraform:state-pull sdk=true

13:53:18 Debug: Error: failed to read remote state file: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of object key string pid=14472 mutator=seq mutator=deploy mutator=seq mutator=seq mutator=deferred mutator=seq mutator=terraform:state-pull

13:53:18 Debug: Error: failed to read remote state file: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of object key string pid=14472 mutator=seq mutator=deploy mutator=seq mutator=seq mutator=deferred mutator=seq

13:53:18 Debug: Apply pid=14472 mutator=seq mutator=deploy mutator=seq mutator=seq mutator=deferred mutator=lock:release

13:53:18 Info: Skipping; locking is disabled pid=14472 mutator=seq mutator=deploy mutator=seq mutator=seq mutator=deferred mutator=lock:release

13:53:18 Debug: Error: failed to read remote state file: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of object key string pid=14472 mutator=seq mutator=deploy mutator=seq mutator=seq mutator=deferred

13:53:18 Debug: Error: failed to read remote state file: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of object key string pid=14472 mutator=seq mutator=deploy mutator=seq mutator=seq

13:53:18 Debug: Error: failed to read remote state file: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of object key string pid=14472 mutator=seq mutator=deploy mutator=seq

13:53:18 Debug: Error: failed to read remote state file: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of object key string pid=14472 mutator=seq mutator=deploy

13:53:18 Debug: Error: failed to read remote state file: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of object key string pid=14472 mutator=seq

Error: failed to read remote state file: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of object key string

[pietern]

Thanks for reporting the issue.

Do you recall earlier errors? This error suggests that the state has been corrupted and no longer contains JSON. Could you examine the contents of the file and report what it contains?