Yes. $HOME==/home/jenkins, which is the directory specified as the Home directory in Jenkins Config as well as the home for the user Jenkins is running under.
On Friday, June 29, 2012 10:23:10 AM UTC-7, slide wrote: > > Did you install to the home of the user running Jenkins? > > Sent from my Windows Phone > ------------------------------ > From: Kurt Granroth > Sent: 6/29/2012 10:44 AM > To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com > Subject: Git clone fails with NPE and 'missing' exe > > I am unable to perform a git clone using a Jenkins instance for which I > have no root access. The symptom at this point is that the Git plugin is > running the clone command with an empty or NULL 'git' exe. > > Here's some more details. I started out by enabling the Git plugin on the > assumption that it implemented the Git protocol internally. It does not, > but instead calls the 'git' executable installed on the Jenkins box. Fair > enough. I don't have root access to the box, so I cannot install git into > /usr/bin and instead installed it into $HOME/local-git. I then updated the > path of the git exe in the config interface to use > /home/jenkins/local-git/bin/git. > > Since then, all builds fail at the 'clone stage' with this (truncated): > > ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin' : Could not clone > git://gitrepo/test-repohudson.plugins.git.GitException > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search?query=hudson.plugins.git.GitException>: > Could not clone git://gitrepo/test-repo > at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.clone(GitAPI.java:251) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.clone&entity=method> > at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:1121) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke&entity=method> > at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:1063) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke&entity=method> > at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:2154) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call&entity=method> > at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform&entity=method> > at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform&entity=method> > at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:287) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.remoting.Request$2.run&entity=method> > at > hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72) > > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call&entity=method> > at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun&entity=method> > at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run&entity=method> > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) > > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask&entity=method> > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) > > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run&entity=method> > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=java.lang.Thread.run&entity=method> > Caused by: hudson.plugins.git.GitException > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search?query=hudson.plugins.git.GitException>: > Error performing command: clone -o origin git://gitrepo/test-repo > /home/jenkins/workspace/TEST - Git Repo > at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.launchCommandIn(GitAPI.java:793) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.launchCommandIn&entity=method> > at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.access$000(GitAPI.java:39) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.access$000&entity=method> > at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI$1.invoke(GitAPI.java:247) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI$1.invoke&entity=method> > at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI$1.invoke(GitAPI.java:227) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI$1.invoke&entity=method> > at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:832) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.FilePath.act&entity=method> > at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:814) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.FilePath.act&entity=method> > at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.clone(GitAPI.java:227) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.clone&entity=method> > ... 12 more > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search?query=java.lang.NullPointerException> > at hudson.Launcher.printCommandLine(Launcher.java:592) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.Launcher.printCommandLine&entity=method> > at hudson.Launcher.maskedPrintCommandLine(Launcher.java:614) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.Launcher.maskedPrintCommandLine&entity=method> > at hudson.Launcher$LocalLauncher.launch(Launcher.java:700) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.Launcher$LocalLauncher.launch&entity=method> > at hudson.Launcher$ProcStarter.start(Launcher.java:338) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.Launcher$ProcStarter.start&entity=method> > at hudson.Launcher$ProcStarter.join(Launcher.java:345) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.Launcher$ProcStarter.join&entity=method> > at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.launchCommandIn(GitAPI.java:774) > <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.launchCommandIn&entity=method> > ... 18 more > > > Note the clone line after 'Error performing command.' I would expect it to > read '/home/jenkins/local-git/bin/git clone -o origin...' but instead, the > git exe is missing! > > > I suspected that this may be an issue with directly specifying the location, > so I added $HOME/local-git/bin to the jenkin user's PATH and switched the > config path back to just 'git'. That made no difference. I also verified > that I can perform a 'git clone' on the command line as the Jenkins user. > > > This feels like it should be blindingly obvious, but I'm stumped. What could > be causing the Git plugin to use a NULL 'gitExe' during that call? > >
