运行jenkins slave作为服务jenkins 2.89

Question

I am trying to connect my windows slave as a service to jenkins 2.88. I did so by starting the slave via webstart and then ran jenkins-slave.exe install to install the service. When running a job for the second time, which checks out things from svn i get the following error:

Started by user XXX
Building remotely on Tobias_testnod (Excel) in workspace <PATH_TO_WORKSPACE>
Cleaning local Directory XXX/YYY
java.nio.file.DirectoryNotEmptyException: C:\<path_>\.svn\pristine
    at sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystemProvider.implDelete(Unknown Source)
    at sun.nio.fs.AbstractFileSystemProvider.deleteIfExists(Unknown Source)
    at java.nio.file.Files.deleteIfExists(Unknown Source)
    at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteFile(Util.java:290)
    at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteRecursive(Util.java:370)
    at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:389)
    at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteRecursive(Util.java:369)
    at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:389)
    at hudson.Util.deleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:225)
Also:   hudson.remoting.Channel$CallSiteStackTrace: Remote call to JNLP4-connect connection from <HOST>
        at hudson.remoting.Channel.attachCallSiteStackTrace(Channel.java:1655)
        at hudson.remoting.UserResponse.retrieve(UserRequest.java:308)
        at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:904)
        at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:986)
        at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:975)
        at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:902)
        at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:838)
        at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:495)
        at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1202)
        at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:574)
        at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)
        at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:499)
        at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1724)
        at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
        at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)
        at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:421)
Caused: java.io.IOException: Unable to delete <PATH>. Tried 3 times (of a maximum of 3) waiting 0,1 sec between attempts.
    at hudson.Util.deleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:230)
    at hudson.scm.subversion.CheckoutUpdater$1.perform(CheckoutUpdater.java:81)
    at hudson.scm.subversion.WorkspaceUpdater$UpdateTask.delegateTo(WorkspaceUpdater.java:162)
    at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask.perform(SubversionSCM.java:1001)
    at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:977)
    at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:953)
    at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:2760)
    at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:205)
    at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:52)
    at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:356)
    at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at hudson.remoting.Engine$1$1.run(Engine.java:98)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused: java.io.IOException: remote file operation failed: <PATH_TO_WORKSPACE> at hudson.remoting.Channel@1fe2698:JNLP4-connect connection from <HOST>
    at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:993)
    at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:975)
    at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:902)
    at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:838)
    at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:495)
    at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1202)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:574)
    at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:499)
    at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1724)
    at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
    at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)
    at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:421)
Archiving artifacts

The service is running as my user in order for it to have all neccessary permissions. Now my question in short is whether the approach of running the jenkins-slave jar from a service is properly supported from jenkins. I could for example not install it from the window which appeared when starting via webstart as it did not have sufficent privileges. Instead I had to install it manually from the commandline running as admin.

So is the service option really working properly? Or should i just drop it and connect from a commandshell instead? If anyone knows exactly what is wrong of course I would be happy for any assistance regarding the error too :). i am running java 1.8 on both the master and the slave.

Answer 1

It seems to be a memory-related issue. See this Jenkins bug for a workaround.