job “<jobname>” has missing artifacts metadata and cannot be extracted”

gitlab 13.0.6-13.1.1

error message: job “” has missing artifacts metadata and cannot be extracted”

I’m getting an error "job “” has missing artifacts metadata and cannot be extracted” when trying to “Trigger child pipeline with generated configuration file”.

What would cause this error?!

REference: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#trigger-child-pipeline-with-generated-configuration-file

Opened forum questions: https://forum.gitlab.com/t/trigger-child-pipeline-with-generated-configuration-file-not-working/38636 https://forum.gitlab.com/t/job-jobname-has-missing-artifacts-metadata-and-cannot-be-extracted/39079