fetching the GitHub Education API failed with status 401: Unauthorized

[jankeromnes]

Bug description

In most Gitpod installations (every one except production i.e. https://gitpod.io), we see these errors very frequently in the logs:

fetching the GitHub Education API failed with status 401: Unauthorized

SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input
    at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
    at EligibilityService.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/@gitpod/server/dist/ee/src/user/eligibility-service.js:88:37)
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at fulfilled (/app/node_modules/@gitpod/server/dist/ee/src/user/eligibility-service.js:19:58)
    at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)

We don't think this error is problematic (it's just that checking the GitHub student status fails), however it's very noisy, and often distracts from "real problems" by acting as a "red herring" (i.e. investigate a new bug, check the logs, see this, report it -- but that wasn't the relevant error message).

We should probably fix it in dev to make our lives easier.

Steps to reproduce

1. Use any Gitpod preview or staging environment
2. Check the server logs

Workspace affected

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Expected behavior

When checking the student status on GitHub fails, we shouldn't be as loud about it (either log a clear, minimal warning, or don't log anything at all).

Example repository

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Anything else?

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[geropl]

@AlexTugarev I believe you had a commit with a fix somewhere...? Cannot find it anymore.

[AlexTugarev]

this happens to happen in the isStudent check. AFAIR it was a missing return. commit is gone, but that's a quick fix.