Minor I have a number of jobs that are named differently, and do similar but different operations, but have the same perforce mapping and run the same setup.
I wanted to share a workspace amongst all those jobs, so that i can benefit from the p4sync and setup caching.
I wrote my jobs like this:
node('myNodeLabel') { ws('C:\\MyCustomWorkspace') { stage('Prepare node') { def p4WsName = 'custom-workspace-${NODE_NAME}' p4sync credential: 'myCred', changelog: false, populate: autoClean(replace: true, quiet: true, delete:false), workspace: [ $class: 'ManualWorkspaceImpl', charset: 'utf8', pinHost: false, name: p4WsName, spec: [ allwrite: true, backup: false, clobber: true, compress: false, line: 'LOCAL', locked: false, modtime: false, rmdir: true, streamName: '', type: 'WRITABLE', view: """\ //depot/... //${p4WsName}/...""" ] ] } // Do stuff } }
When 2 instances of the job run on the same node, jenkins correctly allocates second workspace at C:\MyCustomWorkspace@2, syncs it etc.
After the concurrent runs have finished and I run the job again, there is a high chance that the job will fail during the p4sync step with an error message that's indicating that the p4 root is set incorrectly:
> Path 'C:\MyCustomWorkspace/...' is not under client's root 'C:\MyCustomWorkspace%402'.
More complete console log of the p4 operations:
P4 Task: reverting all pending and shelved revisions. ... p4 revert C:\MyCustomWorkspace/... + ... rm [abandoned files] duration: (15ms) P4 Task: cleaning workspace to match have list. ... p4 reconcile -w -f -e -d C:\MyCustomWorkspace/... + duration: 0m 10s P4 Task: syncing files at change: XXXXXXX ... p4 sync -q C:\MyCustomWorkspace/...@XXXXXXX + P4 Task: attempt: 1 [Pipeline] } [Pipeline] // stage [Pipeline] } [Pipeline] // ws [Pipeline] } [Pipeline] // node [Pipeline] End of Pipeline [BFA] Scanning build for known causes... [BFA] No failure causes found [BFA] Done. 0s ERROR: P4: Task Exception: com.perforce.p4java.exception.P4JavaException: com.perforce.p4java.exception.P4JavaException: hudson.AbortException: P4JAVA: Error(s): Path 'C:\MyCustomWorkspace/...' is not under client's root 'C:\MyCustomWorkspace%402'.
Repro steps:
1. Create a pipeline job using the code I pasted above and pin it on a single node.
2. Change the //Do stuff to something like a 1 min sleep
3. Start 2 runs of the job, which should run on the same node, and verify that jenkins had created 2 different workspaces. You might want to wait until the p4 sync of the first run has finished before starting the second one.
4. After the 2 runs have finished, start a 3rd run
5. The 3rd run will probably fail.
Note: I tried creating my custom workspace inside my jenkins workspace root, and experienced the same issue.
