I have a multi-module maven project that I'm building with Jenkins called MyApp. I also have another maven project that depends on MyApp, and this project runs integration tests on MyApp.
In Jenkins, when I view the status of the MyApp project it successfully displays a list of previously run builds and I can click on them to find out more information (and view the console output).
However, the integration test project, while it does build properly, it only displays previously run builds for about 5 minutes, at which point something happens and jenkins completely forgets the build ever ran.
On the filesystem, I am able to cd to:
/usr/share/tomcat6/.jenkins/jobs/My App Integration Test/builds
and ls reveals
me#myserver:/usr/share/tomcat6/.jenkins/jobs/My App Integration Test/builds$ ls
1 2 2013-01-24_16-46-59 2013-01-24_16-51-58 2013-01-24_18-05-09 2013-01-24_18-58-46 3 4
that all my previously run builds are right there, where they should be.
Jenkins has a "discard old builds" feature in its project configuration page, but I obviously have it unchecked.
I'm running jenkins in tomcat6 on Ubuntu.
Help please?
Jenkins has resolved this issue as of 1.505 I recommend everyone upgrade who does not wish to switch from Jenkins back to Hudson.
This can be done through the GUI via Manage Jenkins->Upgrade to Latest (Note for this to work you need to have the appropriate permissions for Jenkins)
More information can be found here For linux users aptitude update or yum update jenkins should also work for you.
I have jenkins running with 1.517, still facing the issue if the number of builds goes more than 65 without discard option. Found that reload configuration bring back the build history.
I've seen this issue and have always been able to resolve it by following these steps:
Going to \\[buildmachine]\C$\Jenkins\jobs\[jobname]
Removing the builds folder.
Removing shortcuts to lastStable and lastSuccessful.
Open file nextBuildNumber and change the number to 1.
Then build new jobs and they no longer disappear.
As mentioned by Dave Bacher, this appears to be a bug in Jenkins. I switched over to Hudson and problem fixed!
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I am facing a weird issue after upgrading jenkins to 1.632. After upgrade I am not able to see the build history in jenkins and surprise thing is that history is lost for few jobs. I have reverted back the jenkins but still I am not able to see the history. To make this issue more clear I am running Jenkins on tomcat and I just replace the jenkins.war file in webapps directory. I believe it should not have any impact on JENKINS_HOME location. Is there any way to restore the build history? BTW I also tried the option "reload configuration from the disk" but that is also not working. I am running jenkins on Linux box.
Any kind of help is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sanjiv
I'm new to jenkins.
For that sake I installed the latest version of jenkins i.e. 1.632 on my ubuntu and deployed a war using post build actions in the configuration part. That worked fine for me.
Then I changed a few things in the build making sure that it fails when deployed and it effectively did and I'm not able to access the application die to deployment failure.
But I'm curious here, I have heard that in case of a build failure jenkins makes sure that the previous build remains deployed so that the application is always up and running. Please clarify if I'm wrong or doing anything wrong in my deployment steps.
I did searched a lot about this but couldn't find a valuable answer.
Haven't done much with the deploy plugin but it states this in the docs
Now when you trigger this job you can enter the build number (or use
any other available selector) to select which build to redeploy.
So you can set up a build on failure which will redeploy the last stable version. Here is also an example how to get the last stable build number:
http://<JENKINS>/job/<JOB_NAME>/lastStableBuild/buildNumber
I have a question about updating GitHub plugin.
Everytime I do an update plugin such as GitHub and restart the jenkins, Jenkins start crashing. when I try to access jenkins through URL in my browser, the error page shows up with some exception "class not found jenkins/model jenkins" . and then in order to make jenkins working again , I have to delete the plugin entirely from the plugins directory. I wish someone has an answer for this because I really need to make my github projects available to jenkins for build. Thanks
It is a very usual problem with Jenkins. My workaround was to either update the jenkins (where ever it is installed) and restarting the hudson service.
sometimes even restarting the service works.
often you might need to remove those plugins from within (/var/lib/hudson/plugins/) and restart the service.
I am on a redhat linux box. I recently updated Jenkins to version 1.509 only to find that after doing so it has "forgotten" two of my jobs/projects. The jobs can still be found on my Jenkins machine under /var/lib/jenkins/jobs, but they no longer show up in the Jenkins GUI. I attempted to re-create them based off the configuration file I have, but I am not confident I have totally re-created the functionality they had.
I also tried to copy the job and or rename it hoping that would get jenkins to see it, but no luck. I had tried cp -r /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/JOB1 /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/JOB2. I also restarted the service a number of times. Finally I updated all of my plugins on the off chance that was somehow related.
So my question is "How can I get Jenkins to notice these jobs?" or failing that "can I run these jobs from in the terminal?"
NOTE: I am not discouraging others from upgrading Jenkins. After I upgraded Jenkins did complain about a number of things which I didn't pay enough attention to which I believe got me into this mess in the first place.
If I were you, I would try the Jenkins CLI (from $JENKINS_URL/cli) and use the create-job command and feed the job configuration file to the cli's stdin.
If that does not help, I would inspect Jenkins log files (you are saving stdout and stderr of Jenkins somewhere, right?) for any errors or clues. If the job failed to load because of some tag that you can guess is provided by a plugin, try to remove that part from the config file.
If that does not help, I would upgrade Jenkins. I think there might be some fixes related to this in the LTS version changelog since 1.509.
And above all... if I were you, I would start making backups of the job configuration files.
I regularly back up the global config.xml, all the job config.xml files and all the plugins. Using these I can set up my Jenkins from scratch. And I do that to set up a test instance where I try any plugin or Jenkins core upgrade. If I see no problems after running a few of the trickiest builds, I know I can upgrade the production instance with much more confidence.
I am using Jenkins CI in my project, I am able to successfully build the project and I have no issues in deploying it in the container after every successful build. Now I have a condition that the deployment to the container has to happen only if there is a change in the release properties file. If there is no change in the release properties file then the project has to be built but no deployment should happen.
Since I am new to Jenkins I am trying out all the options, I am sure that someone must have been in the similar situation, please share your thoughts or ideas. Incase if I find something I will post it.
Highly Appreciate your help on this.
If this is still not answered!!
This can we easily done using Script Trigger plugin.
This allows you to run a shell/batch script and based on the exit code of this script the build will be executed.
You can keep track of the last modified date of the properties file and if it changed then you can go ahead and build, if not there will not be any build until the change happens.
Hope this helps (if at all required now ;)
You should install the "Post-Build Script Plug-in" in your Jenkins. The previous answer was mentioning a plugin that is no longer available.
Then you can add sub build steps, like executing a shell script
script
You can also publish a Docker container, etc.