JENKINS_HOME on NFS

2012-11-07 Thread Joshua Boyd
Is it considered safe to point JENKINS_HOME to a NFS mount? Both the machine running Jenkins and the NFS server are linux. In trying to search for answers, I mostly see references to slaves pointing at NFS, not Jenkins master.

Problems with Windows Slaves: hudson.util.IOException2: remote file operation failed

2012-12-05 Thread Joshua Boyd
I am running Jenkins 1.480.1 on a Linux server. I have an XP slave for running browser tests. The slave is launched by javaws pointed at the jnlp URL given in the master in a batch file in the startup folder. For the last couple of nights, starting sometime between 12:00 and 1:00 AM until so

Re: Problems with Windows Slaves: hudson.util.IOException2: remote file operation failed

2012-12-12 Thread Joshua Boyd
On 12/6/2012 11:06 AM, Jerry wrote: Hi, Joshua. When using the JNLP connection, I have found that we have gotten cryptic messages similar to this when the connection is lost. The JNLP connection is much more fragile than SSH, and if there is even a minor interruption in network connection, ever

Re: Problems with Windows Slaves: hudson.util.IOException2: remote file operation failed

2012-12-13 Thread Joshua Boyd
On 12/12/2012 5:01 PM, Strausser, Barrett wrote: Can you not install the Slave as a service on the machine? If I install the slave as a service (choosing File->Install as Windows Service in the Jenkins slave agent), won't it have the same trouble with accessing the graphical interface? Or

Could not open channel: Jenkins connecting to Windows slave via Kpym SSHD

2013-01-16 Thread Joshua Boyd
I have installed a registered version of Kpym SSH server for Windows on Windows XP running on KVM, and I want to use this as a slave for building Windows software and running Selenium tests. I can interactively ssh into the Windows XP machine from my linux machine and launch programs and run c

Re: Could not open channel: Jenkins connecting to Windows slave via Kpym SSHD

2013-03-27 Thread Joshua Boyd
On 3/13/2013 5:39 PM, Ken Egozi wrote: Seeing the same issue now (agent is running win8, with kpyM ssh) ssh connections succeed from regular ssh clients. Did you find a solution already? No. kpyM ssh looked very promising. The source code was nicely approachable. Despite that, I got no hel