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It's been asked a lot, and for 2 days, I've tried to resolve, with no success. I am running TFS 2012 Express, on Win7. I have installed VS Express edition on that machine. I can check in fine. I am trying to set up a Continuous Integration build.
But, when I force a build on the build server, I get the following error:
Unable to create the workspace '2_1_Server' due to a mapping conflict.
You may need to manually delete an old workspace. You can get a list
of workspaces on a computer with the command 'tf workspaces
/computer:%COMPUTERNAME%'.
Details: The path C:\Builds\Finance is already mapped in workspace
1_1_Server. (type MappingConflictException)
(Not sure where it gets "C:\Builds\Finance" from....)
I then try what it says on my dev machine, and it asks me for my login credentials on the build server. I enter them, and it tells me:
That seems fine, no?
On the server, I check my Build Agent working folder:
d:\Builds\$(BuildAgentId)\$(BuildDefinitionPath)
I am not sure where the conflict is.
Interesting, if I load a different team project on the same server, it builds. I just created a build definition for this project, and it seemed to build successfully. I think it has something to do with the Build Definitions, as these projects were moved from another TFS server.....
Can anyone assist?
Install the free tool Team Foundation Sidekicks, and use it to delete any workspaces for your build server via Tools > Workspace Sidekick (i.e. with your build server's name in the workspace search result's Computer column). (Don't worry; TFS builds will recreate them):
Then go and delete everything under d:\builds on the build server.
Then check the workspace mapping by editing each build def under its Source Settings tab, and ensure they are using $(SourceDir) as part of the path for every mapping defined.
If the builds have the paths hardcoded instead of using the $(SourceDir) token as the root, it might explain the behavior you are seeing.
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I have been slowly attempting to get the TFS build to work. After some other fixes with other issues, I have gotten to the point where the build will throw the below error. Not exactly sure what to make of the error. I have double checked to make sure the Resources folder is in the solution. However, the file called "resources" is not, but there is a file named "resource". I know this is not much info to go on, however I am stumped at this point.
Suggest you first remote to the build agent machine and check if there are corresponding G3.Resources.resources under path G3.Resources.resources C:\agent\work\1\s
\G3DEV\obj\Debug\G3.Resources.resources
Double confirm the Mapping settings correctly and not cloaked some files.
Try to manually use VS or MSBuild command to build your solution directly on your build agent machine. This will narrow down if your issue is related to TFS build definition side or not.
You could also Enable Verbose Debug Mode for TFS Build vNext by add system.debug=true to get more detail log info for trobuleshooting.
When we do team builds using tfs 2013 we occasionally get the following error:
Exception Message: Unable to create the workspace '41_9_UKBOLTFS6' due to a mapping conflict. You may need to manually delete an old workspace. You can get a list of workspaces on a computer with the command 'tf workspaces /computer:%COMPUTERNAME%'.
Details: The path C:\xxx\xxx\xxx is already mapped in workspace 41_9_UKBOLTFS6. (type MappingConflictException)
If we kick off a new build it may succeed, if not we try again and eventually it works without any changes.
I have seen very similar questions posted on stackoverflow about this but non where the workspaces it is complaining about are the same '41_9_UKBOLTFS6'.
We migrated most of our builds from TFS2010 but not all and we never had this issue before.
Does anyone know what is going on?
This occurs (as the error suggests) when you have a workspace clash on the build server. Workspaces are saved as configuration values in the TFS database so clashes are possibly caused by:
you have created a new build definition with the same name as a previous build definition.
some part of your workspace name (or an artifact within your project) is over 260 chars
build definition is not using $(sourcedir) macro in System Settings tab
More details are explained in this article
Possible work-around:
Rename your build definition to something unique.
Looks like you have multiple team builds mapped to the same local directory. Make sure that the Working Directory in all your agents are unique and there is no absolute path in workspace settings of your build definitions
I've run to this issues and blogged about my solution without renaming the build definition. Check it out here: https://christiaanmolendijk.nl/2016/05/23/before-stressing-out-tfs-cache-folder-on-build-server/
Summary of the link:
Go to cache folder: {userprofile}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\{version}\Cache
Edit file VersionControl.config in Volatile folder
Then go back to the cache folder at {userprofile}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\{version}\Cache and delete the folders with a GUID as name.
I have to migrate the shelveset created in one branch say "development" to another say "release".
so that I can directly merge the shelveset then to release which was created for development branch.
the command I have used is:
tfpt unshelve "shelveset name" /migrate /source:"$...development" /target:"$...Release"
it is showing this error:
unable to determine the workspace
Your location from where you launch the command must be from within your workspace.
E.g. c:\workspaces\project\development if that's where your source is located.
I guess you question is: How can I get the job done without this error occurring?.
In that case, make sure both branches are mapped to your local system and a latest version of your source code in you did a get-latest-version.
That should prevent the error from happening, because the paths then both contain information about the workspace used for the mapping.
I ran into the same issue today.
After checking the items below I got it working:
Have only one Powertools installed.
Run the command from a Developer Command Prompt
Run the command from the folder that is mapped to your target workspace.
I had to uninstall v. 2010 so only v. 2012 remained. The version numbers doesn't seem to reference your TFS version.
To check if you are at the correct folder, you can run tf workspace.
In the window that pops up find the workspace that you want to target and check in column Local Folder. Make sure you are in that folder.
I spent good amount of time to get this done and I had few issues to overcome and one of these in fact was
unable to determine the workspace
This particular issue was solved by running the command from source branch root folder. This is contrary to some answers here and on SO in general where they say to use "target" branch - no, use "source":
cd [your !!source!! branch root]
tfpt unshelve /migrate /source:"$/MyCollection/Development/Maint1.1" /target:"$/MyCollection/Development/Maint1.2" "myShelveset;UserName"
Second issue appeared after this. Seem that it couldn't connect to TFS server. what I realized, I have multiple VS installed and connected to different TFS servers. I was using VS12 and I had workspace and server connection. But I didn't realize that same connection needs to be replicated in VS13 for TFPT2013 to work. It connects to same server and workspace.
I also tried doing it using TFPT2015 but I installed it and it didn't install TFPT.exe hence it was useless. So I tried from TFPT2013 to TFS2015 and it worked for this particular command. I wonder, why not, if VS12/13 works fine against TFS2015?
To summarize
Use CMD or DevCMD - doesn't matter
run from source branch root folder
verify Team Explorer Server connection
TF Power Tools 2013 work against TFS v15, at least migrate option works
My first answer explains how to have this done properly using TFPT. In this answer, I want to explain how to do it without TFPT.
Every developer should have multiple workspaces. Because we work on multiple issues simultaneously and we don't want to mix it up. so, you work on one issue in WS1 and another issue in WS2. So, if you unshelve your shelveset in a different workspace, this will do that as well. Because your shelveset can't point to 2 different locations in the same workspace. But in different workspace it will unshelve to a location mapped in that workspace.
I ran into the same problem as Boris Callens. I had installed the TF Power Tools for VS2012 and VS2013. When runing the tfpt.exe command in command promt I always had the error message "unable to determine the workspace". This is because I was using the VS 2012 power tools with TFS 2013. So I had to change the Path to the Power Tools in the System Environment Variable "TFSPowerToolDir" to point to the Power Tools for VS2013.
You can find the version number running: tfpt.exe /?
TF Power Tools version
We have been using CC.NET as our CI server for a month or so now, which has worked ok with TFS. In the config we were able to specify the TFS server, username, password, project and workspace which is all good.
Now we are moving over to TeamCity mainly because it just seams more solid and is much nicer to use. The problem is getting it work with TFS.
For the purpose of this, both the workspace and machine name are "BuildMachine", username is "BuildUser" TFS project is "$/Project/Dev/Website"
I seam to have set it up correctly, I think, as when testing the connection it is successful. When I run a build I get a TFS error: "RunBuildException when running build stage UpdateSourcesFromServer."
It goes on to say: "No matched workspaces were found. Will recreate workspace and perofming clean checkout."
It then tries to create a new workspace something like this: TeamCity-S-sqa9qe2aulx22gz4rzkogl5kr/BuildUser
It tries to set up some mappings and then fails because: "The working folder C:\ is already in use by the workspace BuildMachine;BuildUser on computer BuildMachine".
This seams ok as this is the workspace that CC.net was using, and c:\project\dev\website is the path to the project. The problem is, why didn't TeamCity pick this up and use this workspace? Why does it try to create its own new one? Any idea how I can fix this?
Thanks
I seem to have fixed this by simply changing the path for the BuildMachine workspace to c:\BuildMachineWorkspace\ instead of just c:\.
I guess this means that the whole of c:\ is no longer a workspace therefore other workspaces can be created on c:\.
I am attempting to use CI on a Branch of one of my TFS projects. MSBuild only fails when I try to use a Branch. I point the same Build at the "trunk" project it works fine.
The error I receive from the build log:
Task "Label"
Label TeamFoundationServerUrl="http://TFSServer:8080/"
BuildUri="vstfs:///Build/Build/6763"
Name="Test_SF_20090619.1"
Scope="$/MyProject" Recursive=True
Comments="Label created by Team Build"
Version="BuildServer3D143_66"
Child="Replace" Files="$/" C:\Program
Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\TeamBuild\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets(812,5,812,5):
error : No matching items found in $/
in your workspace.
Done executing task "Label" -- FAILED.
Done building target "CoreLabel" in project
"TFSBuild.proj" -- FAILED.
I believe this error is being caused by a lack of source files getting copied to the Build server.
Get task excerpt from build log:
Task "Get"
Get TeamFoundationServerUrl="http://TFSServer:8080/"
BuildUri="vstfs:///Build/Build/6768"
Force=True Overwrite=False
PopulateOutput=False Preview=False
Recursive=True Version="C204806"
Workspace="BuildServer3D143_66"
Done executing task "Get".
This is a full build. There should be about a thousand files listed in the GET.
General Information
TFS 2008
Visual Studio 2008
Established build server (been
running builds for the last year)
Project being branched is a ASP.NET
web stie (2.0 Framework).
Full Build Params
/p:SkipClean=false
/p:SkipInitializeWorkspace=false
/p:ForceGet=true
/p:IncrementalBuild=false
/p:IncrementalGet=false
note: I know IncrementalBuild is redundent but I just wanted to be sure.
Questions:
Are there restrictions on builds off a branch?
Any idea why MSBuild fails to pull files from the branch workspace?
If it's for CI then you're most likely doing an Incremental Get. TFS will only bother to get files it thinks have changed since its last get - e.g. if you delete any files from your server, it will still think you have those files so it won't get them again. In this case you'll need to run the build once with the incremental properties turned off so that it forces a full get of the source. You can do this by overriding the properties in the MSBuild command line box in the Queue Build dialog with:
/p:IncrementalGet=false;ForceGet=true
Another possibility that springs to mind is that the Label task is confused by your branch. It may be that your workspace is set up incorrectly, so check that you're mapping in everything it needs.
I had two issues in this case.
First, the branch security did not give rights to the build service account. I had restricted the branch to our team's Tech Leads and Release Engineers. The build service account needed access as well. What tipped me of was while searching the internet I stumbled upon a posting by someone who had made the same mistake.
The second issue was a little more involved. While cleaning up my build project file, I removed the following section.
<SolutionToBuild Include="$(BuildProjectFolderPath)/../../_stage/MyProject/MySolution.sln">
<Targets></Targets>
<Properties></Properties>
</SolutionToBuild>
Which worked fine on projects I had already built at least once, but if this was a new build, that had not copied source files to the build server, then there would be no files and the build would fail.
Some of you may wonder if my other builds were working either, after all wouldn’t they have old build files. Yes, but I had targets defined that did all the work I actually cared about. So the SolutionToBuild is a little frivalous.