Jenkins 2.121.3 works fine on CentOS 5.11 but fails to start after upgrade to 2.38.1:
       

      Starting Jenkins Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
              at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
              at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
              at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
              at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
              at Main._main(Main.java:227)
              at Main.main(Main.java:160)
      Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/jna--1712433994/jna6461328951212197580.tmp: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.                                              7' not found (required by /tmp/jna--1712433994/jna6461328951212197580.tmp)
              at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
              at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1941)
              at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1824)
              at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:809)
              at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1086)
              at com.sun.jna.Native.loadNativeDispatchLibraryFromClasspath(Native.java:947)
              at com.sun.jna.Native.loadNativeDispatchLibrary(Native.java:922)
              at com.sun.jna.Native.<clinit>(Native.java:190)
              at com.sun.akuma.CLibrary.<clinit>(CLibrary.java:89)
              at com.sun.akuma.JavaVMArguments.resolvePID(JavaVMArguments.java:128)
              at com.sun.akuma.JavaVMArguments.ofLinux(JavaVMArguments.java:116)
              at com.sun.akuma.JavaVMArguments.of(JavaVMArguments.java:104)
              at com.sun.akuma.JavaVMArguments.current(JavaVMArguments.java:92)
              at com.sun.akuma.Daemon.daemonize(Daemon.java:106)
              at com.sun.akuma.Daemon.all(Daemon.java:88)
              ... 6 more
      

      yum downgrade allowed for easy roll-back.

      Personsally, I have no expectation of continuing support for CentOS 5 (I am in the process of migrating to CentOS 7) but report the issue as there is nothing mentioned in the documentation. eg

      Upgrading to Jenkins LTS 2.138.x

          [JENKINS-53832] Jenkins 2.138.1 unable to start on CentOS 5

          Oleg Nenashev added a comment - - edited

          Most likely JENKINS-52771 in 2.136 is a root cause of it.

          I agree that it needs to be documented at least. GLIBC 2.7 is required

          CC durgadas

           

           

           

          Oleg Nenashev added a comment - - edited Most likely  JENKINS-52771 in 2.136 is a root cause of it. I agree that it needs to be documented at least. GLIBC 2.7 is required CC durgadas      

          Oleg Nenashev added a comment -

          FTR this is discussed in https://github.com/java-native-access/jna/issues/771 . https://github.com/java-native-access/jna/pull/840 is a pull request which sets 2.7 as a minimum dependency

          Oleg Nenashev added a comment - FTR this is discussed in https://github.com/java-native-access/jna/issues/771  . https://github.com/java-native-access/jna/pull/840  is a pull request which sets 2.7 as a minimum dependency

          Oleg Nenashev added a comment - - edited

          And yes, CentOS 5 is stuck at 2.5: https://serverfault.com/questions/372243/glibc-2-7-on-centos-5-5 . I see no easy way to support it without reverting the change (which would be unfortunate) or serious changes in Jenkins startup logic.

          danielbeck I propose adding end of Centos 5 support to upgrade guidelines

          Oleg Nenashev added a comment - - edited And yes, CentOS 5 is stuck at 2.5: https://serverfault.com/questions/372243/glibc-2-7-on-centos-5-5  . I see no easy way to support it without reverting the change (which would be unfortunate) or serious changes in Jenkins startup logic. danielbeck I propose adding end of Centos 5 support to upgrade guidelines

          oleg_nenashev Glibc 2.7 is a must and CentOS 5 won't support it as its EOL this year . I don't think revert is the option here as newer things will have dependencies and that would stall everything. We probably add to documentation that CentOS 5 won't be supported anymore.

          Durgadas Kamath added a comment - oleg_nenashev Glibc 2.7 is a must and CentOS 5 won't support it as its EOL this year . I don't think revert is the option here as newer things will have dependencies and that would stall everything. We probably add to documentation that CentOS 5 won't be supported anymore.

          Daniel Beck added a comment -

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#End-of-support_schedule

          Is it really newsworthy that Jenkins does not support an OS release that hasn't been supported by its vendor/project for 18 months?

          I'm not sure, but feel free to add it to our docs. No need to ping me here.

          Daniel Beck added a comment - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#End-of-support_schedule Is it really newsworthy that Jenkins does not support an OS release that hasn't been supported by its vendor/project for 18 months? I'm not sure, but feel free to add it to our docs. No need to ping me here.

          Oleg Nenashev added a comment -

          Oleg Nenashev added a comment - Documentation patch: https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/1815

          Greg Smith added a comment -

          Would someone mind commenting here if CentOS 5 is still a valid for the Jenkins build agent?

          We do not run Jenkins on CentOS 5 – but we still do use several build machines which are CentOS 5 for backwards compatibility builds.  I believe JNA is used by the build agent for some items.

          We want to understand if upgrading Jenkins to the latest LTS build will require any special processes to continue to use CentOS 5 build machines.

           

          Greg Smith added a comment - Would someone mind commenting here if CentOS 5 is still a valid for the Jenkins build agent? We do not run Jenkins on CentOS 5 – but we still do use several build machines which are CentOS 5 for backwards compatibility builds.  I believe JNA is used by the build agent for some items. We want to understand if upgrading Jenkins to the latest LTS build will require any special processes to continue to use CentOS 5 build machines.  

          Oleg Nenashev added a comment -

          I am afraid agents will be impacted as well, e.g. process management or SVN checkout with SVNkit.

          Have not tested it, but there are a lot of dependencies on JNA in the codebase: https://github.com/search?l=Java&q=org%3Ajenkinsci+jna&type=Code

          Oleg Nenashev added a comment - I am afraid agents will be impacted as well, e.g. process management or SVN checkout with SVNkit. Have not tested it, but there are a lot of dependencies on JNA in the codebase: https://github.com/search?l=Java&q=org%3Ajenkinsci+jna&type=Code

          Mark Waite added a comment -

          The Jenkins Linux support policy says that operating systems that are no longer supported by the operating system provider are not supported by the Jenkins project.

          Mark Waite added a comment - The Jenkins Linux support policy says that operating systems that are no longer supported by the operating system provider are not supported by the Jenkins project.

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