It is a defect in the plugin.

• https://github.com/jenkinsci/pvcs_scm-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/hudson/plugins/pvcs_scm/PvcsScm.java#L235 - is a logger
• logger is persisted on the disk: https://github.com/jenkinsci/pvcs_scm-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/hudson/plugins/pvcs_scm/PvcsScm.java#L50
• The logger's type is org.apache.commons.logging . I see no sane reason to store it on the disk

• The plugin is even not listed on plugins.jenkins.io
• last release was in 2010
• maintainer is no longer active in the Jenkins project
• Repository contains some tests, so we could verify it

Filed a pull request, but this plugin is so old I cannot even build it from sources any more. I would suggest you just uninstall it and move on, unless someone can be found to adopt it.

jglick,

Unfortunately we are still using PVCS for some source code and I believe this is the only plugin that will allow Jenkins to work with PVCS.  We are not able to migrate all projects from this source control at this time.

this is the only plugin that will allow Jenkins to work with PVCS

With full integration, probably so. In general you can configure projects to check out sources from any SCM you like as a plain build step; you then lose certain integration features such as changelogs, polling / webhooks, etc. Whether or not that is tolerable depends on the setup.

jmlfdc_opsif you are still using this plugin, my proposal would to consider taking its ownership. I can help with reviews of initial facelifting PRs, but a maintainer should be really able to run the stuff against a real server. WDYT?

oleg_nenashev,  We have reached out to Serena, who is the vendor of PVCS to get some feedback from them.  We have asked if they can help with this plugin.  Not sure if they can or not, but I would like to hear from them first.  Thank you for your  help.  I will follow up when we hear back.  We have a service contract with them, so it should not be too long of a wait.

I updated the PR to at least make the plugin buildable again, and attached a resulting snapshot build. Completely untested, YMMV.

oleg_nenashev,

We have just grabbed the version that jglick crated and it is working.  Feel free to release it.  Thank you for your  assistance and quick response.  Very much appreciated.  

THis gets much further now, but we are getting this error several hours into the job:

java.io.IOException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to serialize hudson.model.AbstractBuild#scm for class hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild

               at hudson.XmlFile.write(XmlFile.java:201)

               at hudson.model.Run.save(Run.java:1923)

               at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.setMavenVersionUsed(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:445)

               at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$MavenModuleSetBuildExecution.doRun(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:647)

               at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:504)

               at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1727)

               at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:543)

               at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)

               at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:429)

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to serialize hudson.model.AbstractBuild#scm for class hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild

               at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter$2.writeField(RobustReflectionConverter.java:256)

               at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter$2.visit(RobustReflectionConverter.java:224)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.PureJavaReflectionProvider.visitSerializableFields(PureJavaReflectionProvider.java:138)

               at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.doMarshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:209)

               at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.marshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:150)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractReferenceMarshaller.convert(AbstractReferenceMarshaller.java:69)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeMarshaller.convertAnother(TreeMarshaller.java:58)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeMarshaller.convertAnother(TreeMarshaller.java:43)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeMarshaller.start(TreeMarshaller.java:82)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.marshal(AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.java:37)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.marshal(XStream.java:1026)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.marshal(XStream.java:1015)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.toXML(XStream.java:988)

               at hudson.XmlFile.write(XmlFile.java:194)

               ... 8 more

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to serialize hudson.plugins.pvcs_scm.PvcsChangeLogParser#logger for class hudson.plugins.pvcs_scm.PvcsChangeLogParser

               at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter$2.writeField(RobustReflectionConverter.java:256)

               at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter$2.visit(RobustReflectionConverter.java:224)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.PureJavaReflectionProvider.visitSerializableFields(PureJavaReflectionProvider.java:138)

               at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.doMarshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:209)

               at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.marshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:150)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractReferenceMarshaller.convert(AbstractReferenceMarshaller.java:69)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeMarshaller.convertAnother(TreeMarshaller.java:58)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractReferenceMarshaller$1.convertAnother(AbstractReferenceMarshaller.java:84)

               at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.marshallField(RobustReflectionConverter.java:265)

               at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter$2.writeField(RobustReflectionConverter.java:252)

               ... 21 more

Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Refusing to marshal org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SLF4JLocationAwareLog for security reasons; see https://jenkins.io/redirect/class-filter/

               at hudson.util.XStream2$BlacklistedTypesConverter.marshal(XStream2.java:530)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractReferenceMarshaller.convert(AbstractReferenceMarshaller.java:69)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeMarshaller.convertAnother(TreeMarshaller.java:58)

               at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractReferenceMarshaller$1.convertAnother(AbstractReferenceMarshaller.java:84)

               at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.marshallField(RobustReflectionConverter.java:265)

               at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter$2.writeField(RobustReflectionConverter.java:252)

oleg_nenashev

This is also cross referenced in JENKINS-47736, and I have added that label.  We have made the workaround change on the server and it is moving forward (https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/01/13/jep-200/)

jmlfdc_ops I uploaded a new build that ought to fix that issue; please try it.

jglick,

     We have installed your updated version and are re-running the job now.  It takes a couple hours to complete, but I will provide the feedback.  We have also removed the work around.  Thanks for your quick response.

jglick, job as completed successfully with the changes.  This plugin looks good now.  Thank you for your assistance.  I would suggest that you merge the branch and I will re-install the plugin with the normal plugin manager upgrade.

Code changed in jenkins
User: Jesse Glick
Path:
src/main/java/hudson/plugins/pvcs_scm/PvcsScm.java
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/pvcs_scm-plugin/17fde895278ac9151a5637590def876a78f7868e
Log:
[JEP-200] JENKINS-49024 Possible fix for serialization error.

Code changed in jenkins
User: Jesse Glick
Path:
.gitignore
Jenkinsfile
pom.xml
src/main/java/hudson/plugins/pvcs_scm/PvcsChangeLogParser.java
src/main/java/hudson/plugins/pvcs_scm/PvcsLogReader.java
src/main/java/hudson/plugins/pvcs_scm/PvcsScm.java
src/main/resources/hudson/plugins/pvcs_scm/PvcsChangeLogSet/digest.jelly
src/main/resources/hudson/plugins/pvcs_scm/PvcsChangeLogSet/index.jelly
src/main/resources/hudson/plugins/pvcs_scm/PvcsScm/config.jelly
src/main/resources/hudson/plugins/pvcs_scm/PvcsScm/global.jelly
src/main/resources/index.jelly
src/test/java/hudson/plugins/pvcs_scm/TestPvcsChangeLogParser.java
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/pvcs_scm-plugin/5ebf9683c48e9d2f61a864348c85d9f45d3c7724
Log:
Merge pull request #2 from jglick/JENKINS-49024

[JEP-200] JENKINS-49024 Possible fix for serialization error

Compare: https://github.com/jenkinsci/pvcs_scm-plugin/compare/305b397c473c...5ebf9683c48e

Released as 1.2 and should be on the update center today.