Failed to convert server response to JSON | gcloud.services.operations.describe - google-cloud-platform

Question

I'm new to google cloud services. I was going through some tutorials and I had to run the following command in order to describe an operation.
$ gcloud services operations describe operations/acf.xxxx
however, this command has failed with the error stating:
ERROR: (gcloud.services.operations.describe) INTERNAL: Failed to convert server response to JSON
I'm performing these operations in windows PowerShell using bash commands. Is there any solution to resolve this?

Answer 1

Possibly a bug.
I get the same error on Linux with gcloud v.291.0.0.
You may wish to report this issue at Google's issuetracker
A useful feature of gcloud is that you can append any command with --log-http to see the underlying REST API calls which is often (not really in this case) more illuminating of the error.
This yields (for me):
uri: https://serviceconsumermanagement.googleapis.com/v1beta1/operations/${OPERATION_ID}?alt=json
method: GET
...
{
"error": {
"code": 500,
"message": "Failed to convert server response to JSON",
"status": "INTERNAL"
}
}
Another excellent (debugging) tool is APIs Explorer that supports all Google's REST endpoints. This is accessible from API documentation:
https://cloud.google.com/service-infrastructure/docs/service-consumer-management/reference/rest/v1beta1/operations/get
If you complete the APIs Explorer (form) on the righthand side, I suspect, you'll receive the same error.
The approaches appear to confirm that the issue is Google-side.