Renovate unable to resolve private shareable preset

[hisabimbola]

What Renovate type, platform and version are you using?

Self-hosted Renovate
Version: renovate/renovate:24.119.4

Describe the bug

When a preset is stored in a private repo, renovate is not able to fetch the preset.

Relevant debug logs
I created a sample repo here

You can see that it could not fetch the preset repo, even though there is a valid token.

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DEBUG: Using RE2 as regex engine
DEBUG: Parsing configs
DEBUG: Checking for config file in /github/workspace/dist/src/renovate-config.js
DEBUG: GitHub 404
       "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/hisabimbola/renovate-base/contents/base.json"
DEBUG: Failed to retrieve base.json from repo
       "statusCode": 404,
       "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/hisabimbola/renovate-base/contents/base.json"
DEBUG: Preset fetch error
       "preset": "github>hisabimbola/renovate-base:base",
       "err": {
         "message": "dep not found",
         "stack": "Error: dep not found\n    at fetchJSONFile (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/presets/github/index.ts:33:11)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)\n    at Object.fetchPreset (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/presets/util.ts:59:19)\n    at getPreset (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/presets/index.ts:184:22)\n    at Object.resolveConfigPresets (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/presets/index.ts:259:27)\n    at Object.parseConfigs (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/index.ts:56:22)\n    at Object.start (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/workers/global/index.ts:76:14)\n    at /usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/renovate.ts:16:22"
       }
 INFO: Throwing preset error
       "validationError": "Cannot find preset's package (github>hisabimbola/renovate-base:base)"
FATAL: Fatal error: config-validation
       "err": {
         "validationError": "Cannot find preset's package (github>hisabimbola/renovate-base:base)",
         "message": "config-validation",
         "stack": "Error: config-validation\n    at Object.resolveConfigPresets (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/presets/index.ts:270:25)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)\n    at Object.parseConfigs (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/index.ts:56:22)\n    at Object.start (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/workers/global/index.ts:76:14)\n    at /usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/renovate.ts:16:22"
       }
DEBUG: Missing config
DEBUG: Renovate exiting

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• I have provided a minimal reproduction repository
• I don't have time for that, but it happens in a public repository I have linked to
• I don't have time for that, and cannot share my private repository
• The nature of this bug means it's impossible to reproduce publicly

Additional context

Initial discussion about this issue here

[hisabimbola]

Issue is fixed in v25 release #9394

[rarkins]

Great, thanks for your patience getting to the root of it