Renovate failed all time since I deleted an issue ticket

[hongbo-miao]

How are you running Renovate?

A Mend.io-hosted app

Which platform you running Renovate on?

GitHub.com

Which version of Renovate are you using?

43.110.2

Please tell us more about your question or problem

Renovate failed all time since I deleted an issue ticket. Worth handling this case, thanks! ☺️

Seems related to #38549 (?) However, in this case, I am using "a Mend.io-hosted app" that I don't have control.
I tried to stop using Renovate to watch my repo and onboard Renovate again, however, it does not help.
Any other workaround way? Thanks!

Logs (if relevant)

Logs

INFO: Renovate is exiting with a non-zero code due to the following logged errors
{
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      "name": "renovate",
      "level": 50,
      "logContext": "ade62975-28d8-41ed-af8a-eee561ec21cd",
      "repository": "hongbo-miao/hongbomiao.com",
      "err": {
        "name": "HTTPError",
        "code": "ERR_NON_2XX_3XX_RESPONSE",
        "timings": {
          "start": 1776136211240,
          "socket": 1776136211240,
          "lookup": 1776136211240,
          "connect": 1776136211240,
          "secureConnect": 1776136211240,
          "upload": 1776136211241,
          "response": 1776136211330,
          "end": 1776136211331,
          "phases": {
            "wait": 0,
            "dns": 11,
            "tcp": 3,
            "tls": 4,
            "request": 1,
            "firstByte": 89,
            "download": 1,
            "total": 91
          }
        },
        "options": {
          "headers": {
            "user-agent": "Renovate/43.110.2 (https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate)",
            "accept": "application/json, application/vnd.github.v3+json",
            "authorization": "***********",
            "content-type": "application/json",
            "content-length": "18",
            "accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, br, zstd"
          },
          "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/hongbo-miao/hongbomiao.com/issues/41197",
          "hostType": "github",
          "username": "",
          "password": "",
          "method": "PATCH",
          "http2": false
        },
        "message": "Request failed with status code 410 (Gone): PATCH https://api.github.com/repos/hongbo-miao/hongbomiao.com/issues/41197",
        "stack": "HTTPError: Request failed with status code 410 (Gone): PATCH https://**redacted**@14.6.6/node_modules/got/dist/source/as-promise/index.js:98:42)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:104:5)",
        "response": {
          "statusCode": 410,
          "statusMessage": "Gone",
          "body": {
            "message": "This issue was deleted",
            "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/issues/issues#update-an-issue",
            "status": "410"
          },
          "headers": {
            "date": "Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:10:11 GMT",
            "content-type": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            "content-length": "132",
            "x-github-media-type": "github.v3",
            "x-accepted-github-permissions": "issues=write; pull_requests=write",
            "x-github-api-version-selected": "2022-11-28",
            "access-control-expose-headers": "ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Resource, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, X-GitHub-SSO, X-GitHub-Request-Id, Deprecation, Sunset",
            "access-control-allow-origin": "*",
            "strict-transport-security": "max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload",
            "x-frame-options": "deny",
            "x-content-type-options": "nosniff",
            "x-xss-protection": "0",
            "referrer-policy": "origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin",
            "content-security-policy": "default-src 'none'",
            "vary": "Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With",
            "x-github-request-id": "AA78:1FA265:F0180E:3D458B3:69DDB011",
            "server": "github.com",
            "x-ratelimit-limit": "5000",
            "x-ratelimit-remaining": "4990",
            "x-ratelimit-reset": "1776136512",
            "x-ratelimit-used": "10",
            "x-ratelimit-resource": "core"
          },
          "httpVersion": "1.1",
          "retryCount": 0
        }
      },
      "msg": "Repository has unknown error"
    }
  ]
}

[RahulGautamSingh]

Thanks! I will try to reproduce the bug and create an issue. From the logs, it does seems to be existing after finding a deleted issue, which is not expected.

[jamietanna]

Looks related to #38549 ?