No idea if this is the canonical solution but I resolved the issue but adding the following line to to the Script Content field in the Inject environment variables setting. This way a ticket file is created on the Jenkins Slave before every build. See attached screen-cap.
echo ${P4PASSWD} | p4 login -a
--Usman
On Tuesday, September 24, 2013, Daniel B <daniel.barb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you ever resolve this? I'm seeing the same problem on a CentOS box.
> Thanks
>
> On Monday, 8 July 2013 12:22:01 UTC-4, Usman Ismail wrote:
>
> Both the job failing and succeeding are running on OSX boxes.
>
> On Monday, July 8, 2013 9:21:30 AM UTC-7, Usman Ismail wrote:
>
> The password is simple its just the user name that has the slash.
> Its running on an OSX box.
>
> On Monday, July 8, 2013 1:20:42 AM UTC-7, James Nord (jnord) wrote:
>
> Passwords with any shell special characters aren’t handled properly
(there is an open JIRA).
>
>
>
> So ‘\’ on Unix like OSs will want some escaping – try your password with
\\ instead of a single backslash – or put quotes around it.
>
>
>
> Is your other box which can perform releases a windows box? That’s the
only reason I can think of that it works on one and not on another.
>
>
>
> /James
>
>
>
>
>
> From: jenkins...@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkins...@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Usman Ismail
> Sent: 06 July 2013 01:15
> To: jenkins...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Unable to release project from a specific jenkins box using m2
release plugin and perforce SCM
>
>
>
> I am using the maven release plungin using the jenkins m2release plugin
and keep getting the error shouwn below.
>
> The username and password is correct as I have tested it on other
machines and also to get source from this jenkins box. The password only
fails on release and not at any other point.
>
> The only weird thing I can think off is that the user name has a '\' in
it but this does seem to the phase my other jenkins box which works
correctly.
>
> Is there anything I can do get a more detailed error message or debug
whats going on?
>
> [INFO]
> [INFO] --- maven-release-plugin:2.4:prepare (default-cli) @ cascade-proto
---
> [INFO] Verifying that there are no local modifications...
> [INFO] ignoring changes on: **/pom.xml.backup, **/release.properties,
**/pom.xml.branch, **/pom.xml.next, **/pom.xml.releaseBackup, **/pom.xml.tag
> [ERROR] CommandLineException Exit code: 1 - Perforce password (P4PASSWD)
invalid or unset.
>
> Command line was:p4 -d /opt/hudson_workspace01/jobs/JOB-NAME/workspace -p
perforceserver.com:1666 -u "AAAAAAAAA\bbbbbbbbb" -P *********** opened
//XXXXXXXXX/XXXXXX/XXXXXX-XXXXXXX/...
> org.codehaus.plexus.util.cli.CommandLineException: Exit code: 1 -
Perforce password (P4PASSWD) invalid or unset.
>
> Command line was:p4 -d /opt/hudson_workspace01/jobs/JOB-NAME/workspace -p
perforceserver.com:1666 -u "AAAAAAAAA\bbbbbbbbb" -P *********** opened
//XXXXXXXXX/XXXXXX/XXXXXX-XXXXXXX/...
> at
org.apache.maven.scm.provider.perforce.command.status.PerforceStatusCommand.readOpened(PerforceStatusCommand.java:116)
> at org.apache.maven.scm.provider.perforce.command.status.Perfor
>
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