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Bug
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Status: Resolved (View Workflow)
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Priority:
Critical
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Resolution: Duplicate
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Component/s: core
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Environment:Jenkins 1.580.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 with slaves connected via JLNP.
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Description
Since the former major LTS release I experience a kinda problematic problem with our Jenkins instance. Whenever the master is stopped (shutdown) with active connections to slaves, the JLNP client on the slaves stops working with the message: "Unable to launch the application". This was not the case before, so the client application was still running and reconnected once the master was back online.
With the current behavior I have to step through all the >60 slave nodes, and start the JLNP client manually.
Steps:
1. Download Jenkins 1.580.1 and run it
2. Setup a dumb slave via Java Web Start
3. Connect the slave via the same machine
4. Stop the master
After step 4 the JLNP client should stay open, waiting for the master being online again. But it fails with the above message and the following stack:
Exception: CouldNotLoadArgumentException[ Could not load file/URL specified: /tmp/javawJ3YZLo] at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Main.access$000(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) Wrapped Exception: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /tmp/javawJ3YZLo (No such file or directory) at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:146) at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:101) at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Main.access$000(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
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JENKINS-19055 In case of connection loss, slave JVM should restart itself if it can
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So I also tried to install jenkins as service via the JNLP connection window, but that failed on OS X. So it looks like we really have to use the 'java' command for now on both affected platforms.
Henrik Skupin
added a comment - So I also tried to install jenkins as service via the JNLP connection window, but that failed on OS X. So it looks like we really have to use the 'java' command for now on both affected platforms. The fix of JENKINS-24272 changes this behavior, and so far seems to fix it. Now when the master is stopped, the GUI window shows Terminated as expected, rather than closing. Then when the master comes back up, the window is closed, but now it reopens and connects. I am not sure if the javaws process is still being restarted, but if so, it somehow seems to work now.
I'm glad it is fixed. I wonder if the failure was occurring because JWS was trying to re-download the .jnlp file but couldn't because the master was restarting. The fix for JENKINS-24272 only restarts the slave when the master has restarted so the .jnlp file would be available then.
Richard Mortimer
added a comment - I'm glad it is fixed. I wonder if the failure was occurring because JWS was trying to re-download the .jnlp file but couldn't because the master was restarting. The fix for JENKINS-24272 only restarts the slave when the master has restarted so the .jnlp file would be available then. Richard Mortimer that is a plausible explanation. If so, the fix is still pretty fragile: we do not really want to be relaunching javaws at all if we can help it.
So I already tried the way via the terminal by connecting the slave via javaws, but the client dies the same way when the master gets shutdown. So this is not a workaround. And this only happens on Linux and OS X. I re-tested with Windows and I cannot observe this behavior. There the client re-connects successfully once the master is back online.
I'm not that happy with the 'java' workaround given that it would require us to update all of our 70 machines, by downloading the slave.jar file first. Also not sure how often it was required to re-download it given updates to that file. I'm working on a puppet configuration for us but that is not ready yet.