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I'm trying to set up a book in the GitHub writing mode and I'm getting the error message "(Step 6/15 Failed: Sorry, we encountered an error while processing this job)". What can I do?
I'm trying to set up a book in the GitHub writing mode and I'm getting the error message "(Step 6/15 Failed: Sorry, we encountered an error while processing this job)". What can I do?

Keywords: GitHub, error, switch, switching, writing mode, change writing mode

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Written by Leanpub Support
Updated over a year ago

This may be happening if your GitHub organization requires all members to have two-factor authentication enabled.

We have an article about this here:

GitHub sharing is not working with Leanpub! Is two-factor authentication the problem?


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