I tried to manually start Jenkins by invoking the java interpreter directory instead of using a service: It was not clear where jenkins.war is installed using yum, so searching for it:
yum install yum-utils repoquery --list jenkins /usr/lib/jenkins/jenkins.war Now manually running java -jar jenkins.war and all works well, visiting http://localhost:8080 locally or remotely works fine. Unfortunately we need to run nohup to keep the process running after logging out from the shell, and now it seems the service is running out of memory: nohup java -jar jenkins.war nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out' cat nohup.out Error occurred during initialization of VM Could not reserve enough space for object heap Could not create the Java virtual machine. I'll figure out how to deal with the lack of RAM memory. Hopefully this helps someone else. Thanks, Erwin On Apr 14, 9:42 am, Erwin Coumans <erwin.coum...@gmail.com> wrote: > I installed jenkins (as root) and start the service but I cannot > connect to the service: > > wgethttp://localhost:8080/jenkins > --09:31:54-- http://localhost:8080/jenkins > => `jenkins' > Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1 > Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:8080... failed: Connection refused. > > I installed as follows: > > sudo wget -O > /etc/yum.repos.d/jenkins.repohttp://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins.repo > sudo rpm --importhttp://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins-ci.org.key > yum install jenkins > > This is a virtual private server from Godaddy with Fedora release 7. > It could be that port 8080 is blocked. > I checked the port in /etc/sysconfig/jenkins and tried "8080" or "80" > or "8081" without luck. Are there other ways to try it locally, in > case some ports are blocked? Should I somehow route jenkins through > Apache so that it doesn't require special 8080 ports? > > Disabling the local Apache server, httpd, doesn't help either > /sbin/service httpd stop > > The Jenkins service can be started: > /sbin/service jenkins start > Starting Jenkins [ OK ] > ls /var/run/jenkins > /var/run/jenkins.pid > > So there seems to be a jenkins process started. > > /sbin/service jenkins stop > Shutting down Jenkins [FAILED] > > ls /var/run/jenkins > reports no file. > > Unfortunately there is no log file in /var/log/jenkins (the directory > is empty) > > cat /etc/*-release reports > Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) > > Is there a more verbose way to run Jenkins so that I can figure out > what it wrong? > Thanks a lot, > Erwin
