The git-client-plugin gives from time to time "Text file busy" error when executing a script on Linux for GIT_ASKPASS. All generated Unix shell script needs the fix given in JENKINS-48258.

 
stderr: fatal: cannot exec '/var/jenkins_home/workspace/...@libs/8a16443b840b1304a0e1170d55a2d814840ba4a78b285b5c7c678cfec8987fe0@tmp/jenkins-gitclient-pass626380674852717679.sh': Text file busy
 

See log:

 
using GIT_ASKPASS to set credentials Username/Password credentials for ... (...)
> git fetch --no-tags --force --progress --depth=1 – http://... refs/heads/master # timeout=10
ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Failed to fetch from http:/...
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:999)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.retrieveChanges(GitSCM.java:1241)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1305)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep.checkout(SCMStep.java:129)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.libs.SCMBasedRetriever.lambda$doRetrieve$4(SCMBasedRetriever.java:200)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.libs.SCMBasedRetriever.retrySCMOperation(SCMBasedRetriever.java:222)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.libs.SCMBasedRetriever.doRetrieve(SCMBasedRetriever.java:199)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.libs.SCMSourceRetriever.retrieve(SCMSourceRetriever.java:79)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.libs.LibraryAdder.retrieve(LibraryAdder.java:264)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.libs.LibraryAdder.add(LibraryAdder.java:151)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.libs.LibraryDecorator$1.call(LibraryDecorator.java:125)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.applyToPrimaryClassNodes(CompilationUnit.java:1087)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.doPhaseOperation(CompilationUnit.java:624)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.processPhaseOperations(CompilationUnit.java:602)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.compile(CompilationUnit.java:579)
at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.doParseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:323)
at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.parseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:293)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.scriptsecurity.sandbox.groovy.GroovySandbox$Scope.parse(GroovySandbox.java:163)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsGroovyShell.doParse(CpsGroovyShell.java:190)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsGroovyShell.reparse(CpsGroovyShell.java:175)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsFlowExecution.parseScript(CpsFlowExecution.java:636)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsFlowExecution.start(CpsFlowExecution.java:582)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.job.WorkflowRun.run(WorkflowRun.java:335)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:101)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:442)
Caused by: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git fetch --no-tags --force --progress --depth=1 – http://... refs/heads/master" returned status code 128:
stdout:
stderr: fatal: cannot exec '/var/jenkins_home/workspace/...@libs/8a16443b840b1304a0e1170d55a2d814840ba4a78b285b5c7c678cfec8987fe0@tmp/jenkins-gitclient-pass626380674852717679.sh': Text file busy
fatal: could not read Username for 'http://...': terminal prompts disabled
 
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2842)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandWithCredentials(CliGitAPIImpl.java:2185)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$1.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:635)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:997)
... 24 more
ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'
ERROR: Maximum checkout retry attempts reached, aborting