Jenkins git fetch returned status code 143

Question

I'm facing the problem with Jenkins with fetching git repo on Linux. I attach the stack trace. I have SSH gitlab connection configured with a private key and a passphrase. The configuration is made in Credentials/System/Global credentials (unrestricted). The path to the private key is /home/jenkins/.jenkins/secrets/my_private_key.pub. Owner and a group: jenkins:jenkins, where jenkins is the user making the installation. Permissions: 600. The private key has been checked with the passphrase using ssh from the command line. The git fetch command used by jenkins has also been checked with command line. Both works. Repository URL format is like:

git@github.com:org-name/project.git (short notation for ssh protocol)

Environment:

* CentOS 7 64 bit
* openjdk version "1.8.0_131" 64 bit
* Jenkins ver. 2.67
* Git client plugin 2.4.6Git plugin 3.3.0 (3.3.1 is not helping too)
* GIT server Plugin 1.7
* GitLab Plugin 1.4.5 (1.4.6 is not helping too)
* SCM API Plugin 2.1.1
* Credentials Plugin 2.1.14
* Jenkins is run directly
* Jenkins was installed with yum installer
* Browser: Google Chrome 59
* GitLab Community Edition 9.3.5
* git version 1.8.3.1

Stack trace:

started by user Jenkins Admin
Building in workspace /home/jenkins/.jenkins/workspace/my_project
 > git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree # timeout=10
Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
 > git config remote.origin.url git@gitlab.repo:XYZ/docs/project.git # 
timeout=10
Cleaning workspace
 > git rev-parse --verify HEAD # timeout=10
No valid HEAD. Skipping the resetting
 > git clean -fdx # timeout=10
Fetching upstream changes from git@gitlab.repo:XYZ/docs/project.git
 > git --version # timeout=10
using GIT_SSH to set credentials 
 > git fetch --no-tags --progress git@gitlab.repo:XYZ/docs/project.git 
+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* --depth=1
ERROR: Timeout after 10 minutes
ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Failed to fetch from git@gitlab.repo:XYZ/docs/project.git
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:809)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.retrieveChanges(GitSCM.java:1076)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1107)
at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:495)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1212)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:560)
at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:485)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1735)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:415)
Caused by: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git fetch --no-tags --progress git@gitlab.repo:XYZ/docs/project.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* --depth=1" returned status code 143:
stdout: 
stderr: 
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1903)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandWithCredentials(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1622)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.access$300(CliGitAPIImpl.java:71)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$1.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:348)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:807)
... 11 more
ERROR: null
Finished: FAILURE

Answer 1

I found a solution. Running Jenkins as a service with systemctl resolved the problem, instead of running Jenkins with java -jar jenkins.war.

To give more details: According to the documentation, Jenkins is started by

java -jar jenkins.war

And it was visible as running in the system when I checked it with:

ps aux | grep jenkins

However, on CentOS 7 the suggested way of running Jenkins is to run it as a daemon with systemctl command. When I checked it with

sudo systemctl status jenkins.service

it was inactive. So I started Jenkins with

sudo systemctl start jenkins.service

and it worked.

Answer 2

I got this problem too. My Jenkins runs on the kubernetes pod . Only one pipeline got this error, others all good.

ERROR: Timeout after 10 minutes
ERROR: Checkout failed
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git checkout -f ba7c97f6a177b49fc6bc4846de009d4a838e306a" returned status code 143:
stdout:
stderr:
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2042)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.access$900(CliGitAPIImpl.java:72)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$9.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2341)
Caused: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Could not checkout ba7c97f6a177b49fc6bc4846de009d4a838e306a
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$9.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2365)
    at jenkins.plugins.git.MergeWithGitSCMExtension.checkout(MergeWithGitSCMExtension.java:146)
    at jenkins.plugins.git.MergeWithGitSCMExtension.decorateRevisionToBuild(MergeWithGitSCMExtension.java:112)
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.determineRevisionToBuild(GitSCM.java:1100)
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1193)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep.checkout(SCMStep.java:124)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScmFlowDefinition.create(CpsScmFlowDefinition.java:144)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.multibranch.SCMBinder.create(SCMBinder.java:142)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.job.WorkflowRun.run(WorkflowRun.java:293)
    at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)
    at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:429)
Retrying after 10 seconds