I'm failing my R CMD check actions on the newest Linux Devel all over the place, for a variety of reasons. This one looks like it might be related to pak:
Can confirm -- I'm getting the exact same backtrace, and some download failures along the way.
EDIT: with some wrinkles. First off, oddly, my build actions still work fine. It's the pkgdown ones that are broken. And secondly, I think I'm using release anyway. This is somewhat bizarre. i.e., even though the workflow files are identical to this point, this fails:
I have no idea why this should result in a pak failure on a missing path. And I cleared out all cached stuff before attempting this. Hopefully, all of this will make sense to someone.
So glad it's not just me, but I could use a way forward on this.