无法发布GitBook，错误消息模糊且没有细节

Question

I'm trying to publish something that I've written to my GitBook page using the GitBook GUI on Ubuntu 14. To do that I'm just going to book > publish as > book-name

But this error appears:

This doesn't happen often, but it looks like something is broken. Hitting the back button and trying again might be your best bet. If that doesn't work you can head back to the homepage.

There might be more information on our status page which is reporting All Systems Operational.

The book names already been set up as a thing on the website, and I'm signed in on both programme and website.

I'm not sure what I'm meant to do.

Answer 1

The current GitBook version 1.1.1 (and previous versions) have a bug/issue reported which relates to this error message and its vagueness.

https://github.com/GitbookIO/editor/issues/185

The problem you are experiencing is likely due to an invalid value specified for the Version when you try to publish.

Although the publish dialog does provide a hint:

Version must be a semver (ex: 0.0.1, 0.4.5, ...)

there is nothing in the error message to help you understand that this Version value is source of the error.

If you provide a value for Version in the format suggested by the hint in the dialog, I believe you will no longer encounter this error.