SonarQube preparation task fails with no error message

[Colin]

Hey there.

This looks awfully similar to this post:

Prepare Analysis Configuration Fails in version 6.3.2

Hello, We experience the same problem. What is interesting is that with the Task version 5.x it works fine but with 6.x we get operation aborted after 1 minute. ##[debug][SQ] API GET: ‘/api/server/version’ with full URL "https://***/api/server/version" and query “undefined” ##[debug]Not using a proxy agent ##[debug][SQ] API GET ‘/api/server/version’ failed, error is The operation was aborted. ##[warning]Error while executing SonarQube:Prepare task: [SQ] API GET ‘/api/server/version’ failed,…

I know a developer recently pinged that post to look at a potential regression in a library used by the scanner.

Are you sure your SQ server is accessible from your build agent? If you execute a curl http://myhostUrl:portno/api/server/version from your build pipeline, do you get the expected results?