Re: Jenkins Backup and Restore

I have had restore issues with *ALL* of the backup plugins that I have tried. The problem is that they are using stupid mechanisms to copy the filesystem that cannot correctly copy a symlink. This breaks the LastSuccessfulBuild and LastUnsuccessfulBuild and LastFailedBuild symlinks, causing lots

Re: Jenkins service going down on Windows Slave

circumstances, while ssh connections do not. Unfortunately, Windows essentially requires JNLP-only connections. On Mon, 2018-11-26 at 08:23 -0700, Slide wrote: Weird, I have had ZERO issues with JNLP agents. It works flawlessly for me. On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 8:21 AM John Mellor mailto:john.mel

Re: Jenkins service going down on Windows Slave

We have that problem all the time. IMHO the JNLP connectivity to the master is not robust enough to be used. I have tried setting up the agent connection as a service per the Jenkins doc, but it still cannot survive momentary network or performance outages. The only way that I have managed to g

Re: deploy non-Java (C++ DLL) to artifactory

On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 12:00 +0200, Jonathan Bergh wrote: We have a problem where we are trying to deploy non-Java artifacts to Artifactory for inclusion in a Java application install. We are using Jenkins and Gradle for the CI system, and the gradle 'cpp' plugin to build the C++ libraries for th

Re: Project with several Git repositories

On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 16:26 +, Mark Waite wrote: . . .It seems like you're describing a very good use case for a Pipeline shared library. Each repository and each branch then has a very simple Jenkinsfile which loads the shared library and calls it. That's the technique used for Jenkins pl

Re: Project with several Git repositories

On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 15:38 +0200, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > . . . > > So just to make sure we are talking about the same thing, that means > checking the "None" radio button in the souce code managemnet area, > then > check the "run builds remotely (from scripts)" checkbox and then, > finally,

Re: Upgrade Path for Jenkins/Hudson

On Fri, 2018-03-30 at 11:01 -0700, Thomas Dunlap wrote: I have inherited an AccuRev Jankins/Hudson CI. Jenkins version 1.472. The previous developer stopped programming in 2012. I am trying to determine the best way to upgrade the software. Since the development is old I thought it would be be

Re: Scripting in Jenkins

On Tue, 2017-10-17 at 10:03 -0700, Thor Waway wrote: Hello, This is a bit of newbie question so I apologize in advance. * I have 2 nodes currently set up; a MASTER and a WORKER node. * One of the steps in my declarative pipeline points to deploy-script.sh. The contents of deploy-scri

Re: Installing / maintaining Jenkins on a Linux host machine

There are competing update philosophies to consider: Ubuntu ships the latest (unstable) release of Jenkins all the time, while RedHat/CentOS/etc ships the stable version. I host on a Ubuntu VM, but definitely wish it was better tested. If stability is key, then Ubuntu may not be your best choice

Re: vSphere Cloud Plugin - does it work ?

regards P. On Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 2:01:24 PM UTC+1, John Mellor wrote: P asked: > So how do you guys use jenkins slaves on VMware ? Do you use existing VMs ? I use vsphere slaves extensively, but only as existing VMs. I never managed to get a dynamically-constructed slaves to actua

RE: Gerrit trigger doesn't detect changes in Gerrit and run automatically CI

Hi Daniel, The Gerrit plugin a really nice piece of work that is pathetically documented and poorly integrated with the co-requisite git plugin. It works, but the working config settings are very non-obvious and the integration seems incomplete. In the sourcecode management section under git,

RE: vSphere Cloud Plugin - does it work ?

P asked: Ø So how do you guys use jenkins slaves on VMware ? Do you use existing VMs ? I use vsphere slaves extensively, but only as existing VMs. I never managed to get a dynamically-constructed slaves to actually work, but perhaps there is some magic combination of undocumented incantations

How to fire a remote job trigger

Sorry, forgot the subject text. Resent.;^P I’m about ready to throw in the towel regarding remote job triggers. It is definitely a *LOT* too hard. I’m trying to start an Ansible construction job on a Jenkins-2 cluster from a Jenkins-1 cluster, as a workaround for a massive number of items

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I’m about ready to throw in the towel regarding remote job triggers. It is definitely a *LOT* too hard. I’m trying to start an Ansible construction job on a Jenkins-2 cluster from a Jenkins-1 cluster, as a workaround for a massive number of items not working in Jenkins-1. My prototyping appea

Plugins published without a Changelog Entry

This morning I am looking at 2 more plugins that have somehow been published without a changelog entry. Aside from this being very unprofessional, we do not install plugin updates without changelog entries that describe what the change is. These are almost as bad as the stupid no-user-visible-

Gerrit differentiate between a verification build and a merge build

I am using a single Jenkins job for each project in git, with a Gerrit server. Some of the build steps in these builds push Docker images to the registry. I am trying to prevent Gerrit verification builds from pushing these images, while allowing merge and push-button builds to do so. In the

Re: Iteration over list or map in Pipeline script

I just did it this morning, doesn't work. You have to instead do: for(int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) { def elem = list[i]; ... } On Monday, 13 March 2017 10:26:44 UTC-4, Martin Schmude wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a freestyle job with one step of the kind "Execute Groovy Script". > I

Mystery Serialization Error

I have a very simple pipeline that malfunctions unexpectedly. Adding @NonCPS decorators also does not workaround the job failure problem, so I'm mystified as to how to write this correctly. I'm not sure if there is a coding error in the pipeline libs, a coding error in our local lib, or a simp

RE: Updated Hotlist please share your daily requirements..

Can someone please cancel the posting credentials for this user that allows them to post this inappropriate garbage? From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of mahi v Sent: February-21-17 17:06 Subject: Updated Hotlist please share your daily r

Re: sh pipeline step started to fail after update to 2.42

After downgrading the durable tasks pluginto fix this problem, a manual reboot is required to actually get pipelines functional again. Thanks, Daniel ! On Friday, 10 February 2017 17:08:25 UTC-5, Daniel Beck wrote: > > > > On 10.02.2017, at 21:40, John Mellor > > wrote:

Re: sh pipeline step started to fail after update to 2.42

Looking at your pipeline plugin version numbers, I assume that you are on Jenkins2. I'm on Jenkins 1.656 and have been unable to move up to the exact pipeline plugin version numbers that you used. However, I have the same problem, and unfortunately reverting to the previous version has not fixed

RE: Suggestions needed

How long does the hardware testing take? If its only a couple of hours, why not just run a shell step to ssh or whatever out to the hardware and test? A shell step normally blocks until completed, so the job will be in-progress until the tests are done. -Original Message- From: jenkin

RE: permission denied error when copying files in jenkins

‘/var/www/html directory normally requires root privileges to update. Doing so as user Jenkins is not going to work unless you have altered the directory permissions (highly non-advisable) to match. From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of D

RE: Jenkins upgrade from 1.608 to 2.9-1.1 version on CentOS release 6.8 (Final).

Kaushal ran: Ø #cp -r jenkinsnbackup /opt/jenkins I assume from the prompt that you ran this as the wrong user, and the permissions and ownership are all now messed up. Correct? From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eric Pyle Sent: Oc

RE: HOT LIST

Can someone please delete this guy from the list? He has no idea what it is for. From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of sandeep triggerit Sent: October-11-16 09:13 Subject: HOT LIST Hi Partners, Hope you are doing great !!! Please fin

RE: Scaling - executors vs slaves

The system load associated with any given build varies extremely widely, so I do not think that it is possible to provide guidelines for how many executors to configure. Some jobs just do a lot of disk i/o, while other use all possible processor threads to build (e.g: make –j steps). It may be

RE: Jenkins on AIX Installation

Its been a while since I’ve done development on AIX, but here goes: You are using IBM jdk-1.6.0 to run the slave. Can someone confirm that jre-1.7 is now the minimum requirement, and jdk-1.8 is strongly preferred due to some plugin requirements? From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailt

RE: Nodes Not Coming Back Online

Samual stated: Ø the master does not bring an additional node online for a newly triggered job if there is already a node online which matches that label I have the same general setup using VMware slaves that boot as required. I’m on Jenkins 1.656 and about a dozen slaves, with the git plugin

RE: Limit of 'parallel' jobs

There can never be a reasonable number quoted. It all depends upon the number of threads that your build job uses, how disk-bound or network-bound each job is, how overloaded the VM host machine is, how much spare RAM is available, etc. I myself have a large number of C++ jobs using gmake –j, s

RE: Jenkins failing to load after plugin update

I reported the build-graph-view bug crashing an updated Jenkins on Friday, and have the same fix as Mark Waite and yourself have done. See https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-34803?filter=-2 for details. Kenny7 Wang has also commented in there that it also crashes Jenkins 2.1 and 2.4.

RE: Polling without workspace failed to wake up offline slave node

I always have this issue whenever the master has been taken offline and restarted, and occasionally when recovering from a slave connectivity issue. I have to walk through the slaves and manually bring them online once before they work correctly. There are multiple bugs in the way that Jenkins

RE: Jenkins using a lot more resources after upgrade

Yeah, I’m seeing that too, and I am also running Jenkins 1.656 version. I’m only running about 400 jobs in Jenkins with 11 slaves, so it’s definitely not the busiest build environment out there. I’ve currently bumped the heap up to 5GB, and still do not have anywhere near enough to run the bac

Plugin change logs not being updated

Is it possible to alter the commit rules to prevent plugin commits unless accompanied by a reasonable description of the change? I'm seeing lots of changes lately with no idea of the nature or danger of the change, and therefore no idea of why I need to install it or maybe hold off on a poorly

RE: vsphere on-demand slave. Job hang as pending?

I have this problem after I independently bring up the VM to modify it outside of Jenkins using the vsphere client. Jenkins does not recover from this scenario nicely. I have to launch slave agent manually on the node page after this and then everything works properly. From: jenkinsci-users@g

RE: Polling in Jenkins

Hector stated: Ø I tried polling with a schedule like H/10 * * * * which means "every 10 minutes". But polling doesn't seem to work. H/10 * * * * should give you a pooling cycle of about every 6 minutes, not 10. I use something similar because my current git repo does not allow me to insert

Looking for a Plugin to hook Build Deletion

Is there a Jenkins plugin that would allow me to hook the deletion of a build? I can't continue to add large artifacts to my repositories forever, and need to construct some automated mechanism to delete them throughout the enterprise when they are no longer useful. I want to add lifecycle to th

RE: Command not found error on bash build script

Gouri quoted: . . . then partnerfolder = "update" . . . Why do you have spaces around the assignment operator? That’s not legal in bash or any other normal shell language. From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gouri Nair Sent: Decemb

RE: Manage lib dependencies as compilation or link time dependencies?

Matt asked: > My question is should my jenkins job dependencies reflect the compile time > dependencies or just the link time dependencies? Simon responded: > Typically I don't declare any job dependencies there. Each project can be > built and tested on its own, and the projects using the libra

RE: Build orchestration for hierarchy of build jobs

Do you really need the complexity of one of the multiple “solutions” for workflow? I gave up on those solutions since everyone seems to think that you need YADSL to do something simple like this. Just configure the reverse dependencies in each job and Jenkins will run this setup for you. No l

RE: Sudo Power To a Jenkins Job

I do that all the time when pulling in prerequisite components in a pbuilder environment. Just set the jenkins user up appropriately in the sudoers list. From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of GBANE FETIGUE Sent: October-28-15 15:07 To: Jen

Gerrit build with a default REFSPEC value?

I have a couple of prototype Gerrit integration builds up and running, with some issues. All of the builds are freestyle projects, in case that matters. One of the issues is that I do not seem to be able to kick off a build manually because of the way that the sourcecode management has to be co

RE: Global environmental variables

I write out a file containing the globals and then source it wherever required. For downstream jobs, I have to make the file an artifact, so it gets copied to the master node, and then use the Copy-To-Slave plugin to pull it over to the current node. P.S, all of my builds use various forms of

RE: Script executed. The exit code is 255.

Nayan Jyoti Gogoi (2015-09-30 14:44): Hi All, I am executing a shell script using jenkins on a hpux machine. It goes like this. -- set +e set +x #!/bin/sh cd /tmp/ rm -rf bc_env.txt echo "SANDBOX:${sandbox}" >> /tmp/bc_env.txt

RE: How can a Build Pipeline be scheduled/triggered?

I’m not using a build pipeline, but instead using individual jobs and adding the build triggers for the upstream jobs in “Build after other projects are built” and “Trigger only if build is stable”. No pipeline is then needed, and it nicely handles my normal situation where the jobs are arrange

Jenkins 1.625 has no release note?

The changelog on the web site incredibly shows no changes between 1.624 and 1.625. This weird kind of entry was also done for the 1.623 release, although someone retrofitted the changelog to state “No major user-visible changes in this release.”, whatever that is supposed to mean. If there are

RE: Seeting up email notification

KKCS asked: Ø Can anyone suggest a way to solve this problem? SMTP mail uses a simple in-band control mechanism and FTP-like ASCII primitives. You should be able to login to the build machine and telnet to the SMTP port on the mail server and emulate an MUA by hand. That will allow you to debu

Different promotion behaviour causes failures if running on master

If Jenkins selects a slave to run a promotion on, it assumes that the working directory is /var/lib/Jenkins/workspace/ and correctly copies the artifact tree from /var/lib/jenkins/jobs//builds//archive contents. However, if it selects the master node to run on, it assumes a working directory o

RE: Version Issues on Website

Agreed. 1.621 is inaccessible, as is the changelog for 1.621. This can't be a cache issue for this long. -Original Message- From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Aldrich Sent: July-22-15 06:25 To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroup

RE: Jenkins without build tools.

Shankar asked: Ø Is it possible to build in jenkins without using any build tools like ant, gradle? Gradle, ant, Maven, make, etc are just build tools. So is the shell. Some build tools like Maven are unfortunately built in to Jenkins, but if you don’t use them, you’re ok. If you can do it

RE: Configure Converity in Jenkins

We had a Coverity guy inhouse for a week, configuring our mostly-c++ setup. He recommended that we not use their very old plugin, and instead do the runs as 3 shell jobs – one to build, one to analyse and one to push to the Coverity host. I’ve optimized that, but have not gone back to the plug

RE: How can I get a promotion to run on the same host?

ed. To access the artifacts, use the Copy Artifact Plugin and choose the permalink. From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com<mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com> [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com<mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com>] On Behalf Of John Mellor Sent: 22

How can I get a promotion to run on the same host?

I have a problem where a build runs on one Jenkins machine, and then I do a manual promotion. The manual promotion runs on a different machine than the build that I am promoting, so of course the directories and files constructed by the build do not exist on the second machine. The promotion f

RE: sh file permissions

Ø . . . but doesn’t have execute permissions . . . Assuming that the script is running on a unix or linux machine, you should be able to run it without execute permission by invoking it as “sh

RE: Can I move slaves from one Jenkins to another Jenkins?

I just did a slave move from one subnet into another, and am anticipating several more. If you use ssh to talk to testbeds, artifact repositories, etc. then you will have to manually connect once with each of them as the Jenkins user so that they host pubkeys get correctly added into the known_

RE: Git repository connection times out sometimes

That sounds more like network issues that git issues. Is someone playing with duplicate IPs on your network and triggering spanning-tree or something? From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jennifer Hofmeister Sent: April-16-15 05:38 To: j

RE: Borked my jenkins doing a plugin update

I always install into a VM, and rollback to a snapshot when things are not looking good. I can then alter all the build numbers using the build-number plugin, and any other things that have changed since the last snapshot, and then rebuild half the world for a couple of days. Jenkins does not

RE: Script to extract the git commit messages?

15 13:57 To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Script to extract the git commit messages? On 26/02/15 08:15, John Mellor wrote: > I'd like to extract the git commit messages for the changes since the last > build, and insert them into the debian changelog in the product.

Script to extract the git commit messages?

I'd like to extract the git commit messages for the changes since the last build, and insert them into the debian changelog in the product. This will in many ways make each build self-documenting, and does things in a way that is already very well supported when building .debs. Has anyone done

RE: Clean up after build using build flow plugin

Ø Either try to use the workspace cleanup plugin and/or some groovy step to do that and retrieve that variable? We use git, so ymmv. Rather than cleaning up at the end of a build, I just leave it all there and check the “Wipe out repository & force clone” selection in the “Additional Behaviou

RE: Mirror Sites

Your site appears to have messed up routing or dns. Manually add a well-known dns such as 8.8.8.8 to your machine to work around the issue. Also verify that your routing and netmask is correct and you can ping arbitrary sites on the internet – try Slashdot.org and news.google.com for instance.

How do I get multi-branch builds into the build history?

I'm making extensive use of the multi-branch plugin in order to build both dev and release branches of various projects. For the most part, this works quite well, although there are some parts of the project which do not

RE: sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified

Sudo by default assumes that you have an interactive session. Under Jenkins, you do not. To change this assumption, add the following line to your /etc/sudoers file: Defaults!requiretty Don’t forget to also change the sudo permissions for the Jenkins user to not require a password to

RE: Jenkins CI setup on RedHat machine

Jenkins is a standard rpm package for RedHat-based distros. Just use yum or dnf to install it normally. It will install an old-style daemon, so run “/etc/init.d/Jenkins start” for the initial startup. Give it 30 seconds (it’s a really slow startup cuz its java under tomcat), and browse to por

RE: [workflow plugin] list files in workspace

Shell to pwd on any unix-like host will give the correct result. From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shane Kim Sent: February-04-15 17:29 To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Subject: [workflow plugin] list files in workspace maybe it's s

Clover PHP Coverage plugin disabled on multi-branch project?

I have a freestyle project building a fairly large PHP application, running the test suite, and publishing the test results as junit results. I’m using the Clover PHP Coverage plugin to display the coverage page generated by Istanbul. It fulfils the purpose even though its not Clover. However,

RE: Alternate JDK on slave box

Its been a while since I did a maven build under Jenkins or Hudson, but somewhere it notes that the system jdk is used to fire up Java-based build steps. There should be a checkbox somewhere in the config to start a separate Java instance and NOT use the default system jdk. Of course, that wil

RE: Efficient way to copy artifacts(with symlinks) across workspace

using unix tools, install Cygwin. From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jenkinsnewbie Sent: January-13-15 13:10 To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Cc: John Mellor Subject: Re: Efficient way to copy artifacts(with symlinks) across works

RE: ***Subcontractor requirement - Infosys - 101097 - Sterling Expert @ Mooresville, NC***

Can we get someone with admin privilege for this list to please unsubscribe, ban and block this Hitesh Sharma guy? This is not a recruitment list for whatever job he is pushing each day. From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Slide Sent:

RE: Efficient way to copy artifacts(with symlinks) across workspace

“tar” functionality does not nicely handle links, and never has. How about using “cpio –pdum” or “pax” to copy the directory? From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jenkinsnewbie Sent: January-13-15 11:33 To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.co

Re: Promoted Builds Plugin: Manual approval throws exception

This problem is over 2 years old. It looks awfully similar to the problem that I just posted. Did you ever get the promoted builds plugin to work? How? On Friday, 30 November 2012 13:19:37 UTC-5, Nick Dierauf wrote: > > I am getting a similar error when I promote a build manually (but not >

Promoted Builds Plugin Crash

I'm having severe problems with the promoted builds plugin. I have configured the build for manual promotion, and I can get to the point of actually doing the promotion, but then I get an API mismatch bug. I'm using latest Jenkins (1.596) and the latest Promoted Build Plugin (2.19) on a Ubunt

RE: How to Use Different Dependencies in Each Branch?

: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to Use Different Dependencies in Each Branch? YAML Project Plugin or Literate Plugin might help. Basically, a job type that gets most of the "how to build" instructions from SCM. On 16.12.2014, at 17:00, John Mellor wrote: > I'

How to Use Different Dependencies in Each Branch?

I'm building a large number of C++ projects on a Ubuntu host using the Jenkins free-style multi-branch project type, to run a shell script to run a pbuilder chroot jail that then runs the autotools, configure, make and then build one or more .deb files in each project. Products delivered as .r

Re: Compound build/install problem

Thanks Mark, I'm starting to play with the Debian pbuilder environment as a similar solution involving chroot jails. Its early in the prototyping at this point, but seems promising. Does anyone have any lessons learned regarding pbuilder? -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Compound build/install problem

I've just inherited a complex product suite build environment, and am in the process of moving it from a custom build hack into a Jenkins build environment. Company politics aside, it seems like a more scalable way to do things. The product suite runs on and is also built on multiple releases