Unable to deploy che with server:deploy command

[benoitf]

Describe the bug

on a github action job I got:

Calling chectl server:deploy...
› Current Kubernetes context: 'minikube'
    SyntaxError: /home/runner/.cache/chectl/next-update-info.json: Unexpected 
    end of JSON input
stack=Error: Command failed with exit code 1: chectl server:deploy --listr-renderer=verbose --platform=minikube --che-operator-cr-patch-yaml=/tmp/custom-resource-patch.yaml --chenamespace=eclipse-che
    SyntaxError: /home/runner/.cache/chectl/next-update-info.json: Unexpected 
    end of JSON input

Steps to reproduce

$ minikube start ...
...
$ chectl server:deploy --listr-renderer=verbose --platform=minikube --che-operator-cr-patch-yaml=/tmp/custom-resource-patch.yaml --chenamespace=eclipse-che

Expected behavior

Runtime

• kubernetes (include output of kubectl version)
• Openshift (include output of oc version)
• minikube (include output of minikube version and kubectl version)
• minishift (include output of minishift version and oc version)
• docker-desktop + K8S (include output of docker version and kubectl version)
• other: (please specify)

Screenshots

Installation method

• chectl
  chectl/0.0.20210210-next.64ce295 linux-x64 node-v12.20.1

[tolusha]

I can't reproduce it locally.
What is the action job ?

[benoitf]

it happened there: https://github.com/eclipse/che-plugin-registry/runs/1872675606?check_suite_focus=true

I suppose there is something not robust that may lead to corrupted data on server:deploy/update/check command.