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Hudson jobs lose working directory sporadically [message #1503193]

Mon, 08 December 2014 08:38

Christoph Schmitz

Messages: 2
Registered: December 2014

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Hi,

I'm currently having problems with Hudson jobs losing their working directory from time to time - it seems that something is removing the working directory of the job while it is running. Since I cannot entirely be sure that it's a Hudson problem, I wanted to ask beforehand if anyone has seen a problem like that before.

The jobs in question contain "Execute shell" steps that run a Python script which in turn forks other processes (something wrapped in shell scripts). There are no special settings regarding working directories in the "Advanced Job Options" section.

Occasionally - very rarely and in different jobs - the script fails when forking other commands with an error message indicating that the working directory of the shell just forked is gone, i.e.:

Hudson -> Execute shell -> Python -> shell wrapper -> fails because $PWD is gone.

sh: 0: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory

This error message seems to indicate that a shell was started from a directory that had already been deleted at the time. Since none of the steps changes its working directory, I assume that there is some sort of race condition going on regarding the working directory of the Hudson job. No other build of that job was running at the same time. The problem is not reproducible: on re-executing the failed jobs, they worked ok.

We're running Hudson 3.1.2 on several nodes with build slaves being attached through ssh and slave.jar. The build slaves use local directories (i.e., no NFS or anything) as their file system base.

Does this behavior ring a bell with anyone?

Thanks and best regards,
Christoph

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Re: Hudson jobs lose working directory sporadically [message #1506588 is a reply to message #1503193]

Thu, 11 December 2014 00:24

Winston Prakash

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Registered: August 2011
Location: Fremont, CA USA

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If this is a not a concurrently running job (some kind of race condition could happen in concurrent build) and unless the job build process itself is mistakenly removing the working directory, I'm not sure how it can happen otherwise.

Winston Prakash
Eclipse Hudson team

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Re: Hudson jobs lose working directory sporadically [message #1506965 is a reply to message #1506588]

Thu, 11 December 2014 07:47

Christoph Schmitz

Messages: 2
Registered: December 2014

Junior Member

Thanks Winston,

I'll have another long hard look at the jobs themselves to figure out who accidentally deletes the CWD. Just wanted to make sure and check if any problem of this kind was known in the Hudson community.

Regards,
Christoph

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