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Error installing using yum on CentOS [message #997685]

Tue, 08 January 2013 09:48

Trevor Cole
Messages: 6
Registered: January 2013

Junior Member

Hi,

I'm trying to install Hudson on CentOS 6.3 running as a Guest OS in VirtualBox on Windows 7.

I'm using the installation details from wiki.eclipse.org/Hudson-ci/Installing_Hudson_RPM

After I've executed the wget command and issue a yum check-update I get the following error;

hudson-ci.org/redhat/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404"

Any idea why this is happening? Is the repository for Hudson no longer available?

Regards
Trevor

PS I had to remove http from the URL's due to being a first time poster Sad

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Re: Error installing using yum on CentOS [message #997748 is a reply to message #997685]

Tue, 08 January 2013 12:01

Winston Prakash
Messages: 142
Registered: August 2011
Location: Fremont, CA USA

Senior Member

Hi Trevor,
Due to some unknown reason the repomd.xml was not copied properly to the Package repository location. I just made sure it was copied correctly now. Could you please try again.

Winston Prakash
Eclipse Hudson team

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Re: Error installing using yum on CentOS [message #998089 is a reply to message #997748]

Wed, 09 January 2013 05:56

Trevor Cole
Messages: 6
Registered: January 2013

Junior Member

Thanks Winston. That resolved the installation issue.

However the service now doesn't seem to run in the background and I had to stop it running as a service on startup to enable me to log into the server.

Any reason why it is doing this?

Regards,
Trevor

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Re: Error installing using yum on CentOS [message #998231 is a reply to message #998089]

Wed, 09 January 2013 11:06

Winston Prakash
Messages: 142
Registered: August 2011
Location: Fremont, CA USA

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Hi Trevor,
I looked at the RPM packaging source.

http://git.eclipse.org/c/hudson/org.eclipse.hudson.tools.packaging.git/tree/rpm/SOURCES/hudson.init.in

The RPM is supposed to create /etc/init.d/hudson with the following

echo -n "Starting Hudson "
daemon --user "$HUDSON_USER" --pidfile "$HUDSON_PID_FILE" $JAVA_CMD $PARAMS > /dev/null

As you can see the service is started as a deamon, so should be in the background. Could you check that file and see what it has.

Winston Prakash
Eclipse Hudson team

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Re: Error installing using yum on CentOS [message #998238 is a reply to message #998231]

Wed, 09 January 2013 11:22

Trevor Cole
Messages: 6
Registered: January 2013

Junior Member

Hi Winston,

Yes the file seems to have those two lines set in it, but I simply get "Starting Hudson" and then it just sits there and hangs the boot process.

I then have to set hudson to not start up automatically from single user mode before it will reboot succesfully.

Regards,

Trevor

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Re: Error installing using yum on CentOS [message #1006549 is a reply to message #998238]

Thu, 31 January 2013 11:29

Trevor Cole
Messages: 6
Registered: January 2013

Junior Member

I've returned to this problem to try and solve it. It would appear the issue is with this command in the file /etc/init.d/hudson;

daemon --user "$HUDSON_USER" --pidfile "$HUDSON_PID_FILE" $JAVA_CMD $PARAMS > /dev/null

If I change it to the following, removing > /dev/null it seems to execute fine;

daemon --user "$HUDSON_USER" --pidfile "$HUDSON_PID_FILE" $JAVA_CMD $PARAMS &

I also have to remove the /dev/null redirect from this command also, otherwise I get the same hanging problem.

echo "$cmd" | grep $HUDSON_WAR > /dev/null

Any ideas why having a redirect to /dev/null may be causing a hang during script execution?

I'm running under CentOS 6 in a VirtualBox VM.

Regards,

Trevor Cole

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Re: Error installing using yum on CentOS [message #1007670 is a reply to message #1006549]

Wed, 06 February 2013 18:19

Winston Prakash
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Registered: August 2011
Location: Fremont, CA USA

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Strange "daemon" is suppose to act similar to &. Anyway > /dev/null swallows all your log. Probably in order for your logs not to go in the console, you should do something like

daemon --user "$HUDSON_USER" --pidfile "$HUDSON_PID_FILE" $JAVA_CMD $PARAMS &> /var/tmp/hudson.log &

All the Hudson standard output and error will go to the log file /var/tmp/hudson.log which you can refer later.

Winston Prakash
Eclipse Hudson team

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Re: Error installing using yum on CentOS [message #1007852 is a reply to message #997685]

Thu, 07 February 2013 12:55

Terran Gilman
Messages: 54
Registered: July 2009

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I've also noticed that the stop command only kills the root process while the other three created are left running. Any ideas on why this would be happening?

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Re: Error installing using yum on CentOS [message #1007932 is a reply to message #1007670]

Fri, 08 February 2013 04:51

Trevor Cole
Messages: 6
Registered: January 2013

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Winston Prakash wrote on Wed, 06 February 2013 18:19

Strange "daemon" is suppose to act similar to &. Anyway > /dev/null swallows all your log. Probably in order for your logs not to go in the console, you should do something like

daemon --user "$HUDSON_USER" --pidfile "$HUDSON_PID_FILE" $JAVA_CMD $PARAMS &> /var/tmp/hudson.log &

All the Hudson standard output and error will go to the log file /var/tmp/hudson.log which you can refer later.

Thanks Winston, that has solved the issue I was getting.

Trevor

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Re: Error installing using yum on CentOS [message #1008052 is a reply to message #1007932]

Fri, 08 February 2013 11:20

Terran Gilman
Messages: 54
Registered: July 2009

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I wound up re-writing that part of the init script. The nice thing is it only leaves a single process running. The only issue is that I haven't added a safety check for pid file existence to avoid double starting the service.

echo -n "Starting Hudson "
#daemon --user "$HUDSON_USER" --pidfile "$HUDSON_PID_FILE" $JAVA_CMD $PARAMS &> /dev/null &
runuser -s /bin/bash hudson -c "nohup $JAVA_CMD $PARAMS &> /dev/null &"
RETVAL=$?
if [ $RETVAL = 0 ]; then
success
echo > "$HUDSON_PID_FILE" # just in case we fail to find it
MY_SESSION_ID=`/bin/ps h -o sess -p $$`
# get PID
/bin/ps hww -u "$HUDSON_USER" -o sess,ppid,pid,cmd | \
while read sess ppid pid cmd; do
# [ "$ppid" = 1 ] || continue
# this test doesn't work because Hudson sets a new Session ID
# [ "$sess" = "$MY_SESSION_ID" ] || continue
echo "$cmd" | grep $HUDSON_WAR &> /dev/null &
[ $? = 0 ] || continue
# found a PID
echo $pid > "$HUDSON_PID_FILE"
done
else
failure
fi

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