Error message when trying to sync over GIT - Workload_FailedToParseFile

[zachthefrank]

Hello all, I'm trying to update a report and semantic model in workspace from Git. When I attempt to sync I get:

Request ID 44e35710-f230-351b-750e-1358cee6538f

Workload Error Code Workload_FailedToParseFile

Workload Error Message Error while reading 'definition.pbidataset'. DatasetDefinition: Required artifact is missing.

Time Tue Mar 26 2024 15:46:30 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)

[GilbertQ]

Hi @EvanSkam 

I think you need to download and install the latest version of Power BI Desktop. Open the file and save it back that should resolve the issue.

[zachthefrank]

Similar to @EvanSkam this happened on the new version.

[EvanSkam]

Thank you for the suggestion, however it did not work.

I didn't see any version release or change when I checked online or the Microsoft App.

My PBI desktop is Version: 2.127.1080.0 64-bit (March 2024)

When I restarted PBI desktop, opened my model, saved, and did git status, I had new untracked files including:
*.Report/.platform
*.Report/semanticModelDiagramLayout.json

My only theory at the moment is there are updates occuring in the background that have broken something.

I haven't deviated from my PBI/git workflow that has been stable for the last month.

[EvanSkam]

I'm just now experiencing the same issue for the first time. I've found another post created in the last 2 hours reporting the same thing (https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Service/Error-while-reading-definition-pbidataset/m-p/3792...)

I had 3 new, untracked files appear in my directory, just before I hit this error, one of which was  */definition.pbism.

Was an update rolled out that's impacted this process?

While I haven't tried yet, I'm going to save my changes in a new directory and revert to an earlier commit from yesterday to see if that works.

[zachthefrank]

Today I got it to work. Here's what I did:

• Created a forced edit on the branch (added a blank query)
• Saved and commited
• Pull request to merge to main
• Sync to workspace

However, a new problem seems to have been introduced, which is my workspace is saying every single object is holding changes that haven't been commited to Git, which is impossible.

[EvanSkam · Accepted solution]

Thanks for closing the loop.

I believe there was a fix somtime between yesterday afternoon and today.

I ended up testing in a clean workspace and was able to sync to my git repo without issue. When I attempted the same thing in my dev workspace, it resynced without issues, however it also notified me that I had to merge and override my existing workspace objects, including my semantic model (which I've never had to do before).

[zachthefrank]

This is what I did for now - revert in remote and branch on local to save the changes. Means I can't deploy though, which is not great.