Creating Pages deployment failed

HttpError: Invalid deployment branch and no branch protection rules set in the environment. Deployments are only allowed from gh-pages at /home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/v4/node_modules/@octokit/request/dist-node/index.js:124:1 at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) at createPagesDeployment (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/v4/src/internal/api-client.js:125:1) at Deployment.create (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/v4/src/internal/deployment.js:74:1) at main (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/v4/src/index.js:30:1)

Error: Failed to create deployment (status: 400) with build version 6eb1a561469e163ede2ca95cd0254799d8a58980. Request ID 1404:2FF6E3:168E7F0:2CB1853:674DE992 Responded with: Invalid deployment branch and no branch protection rules set in the environment. Deployments are only allowed from gh-pages

ubuntu-latest pipelines will use ubuntu-24.04 soon. For more details, see https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/10636