PATH being ignored on SLES 10 with Jenkins ver. 1.466.2

[rusty]

I am running into an interesting problem with jenkins on SLES 10.4.  I have two different python versions installed because I need python2.6 and not 2.4 for portability reasons that are not important.
Obviosly, I set up path variables on the machine so that jenkins would build using python2.6 and not 2.4.... I have set a node variable
PATH /usr/local/bin/python:/usr/local/bin/:$PATH:/usr/local/bin/python:/usr/local/bin/
I have set the .bashrc file
I have set the /etc/profile
yet the path returned, even after a machine restart,disconnect-reconnect or both, jenkins always returns the path...
PATH /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
But running a simple job of :
import os
import sys
print sys.executable
print os.getenv("PATH", None)
print sys.path
import automate
Returns

23:11:38 [sysn0t4] $ python /tmp/hudson3083762089535439523.py
23:11:38 /usr/local/bin/python
23:11:38 /usr/local/bin/python:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/local/bin/python:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin/python:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/local/bin/python:/usr/local/bin/
23:11:38 ['/tmp', '/usr/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/lib64/python2.4', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-tk', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages',

What on earth is going on????  acording to the path returned. /usr/local/bin/python (python2.6) should have been found first, but it isn't.  How do I insert python 2.6 onto the path correctly?

[Johannes Wienke]

Hi,

On 05/21/2013 07:47 AM, rusty wrote:
> I am running into an interesting problem with jenkins on SLES 10.4. I have
> two different python versions installed because I need python2.6 and not
> 2.4 for portability reasons that are not important.
> Obviosly, I set up path variables on the machine so that jenkins would
> build using python2.6 and not 2.4.... I have set a node variable
> PATH
> /usr/local/bin/python:/usr/local/bin/:$PATH:/usr/local/bin/python:/usr/local/bin/
> I have set the .bashrc file
> I have set the /etc/profile
> yet the path returned, even after a machine restart,disconnect-reconnect or
> both, jenkins always returns the path...
> PATH /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
> But running a simple job of :
> import os
> import sys
> print sys.executable
> print os.getenv("PATH", None)
> print sys.path
> import automate
> Returns
>

> *23:11:38* [sysn0t4] $ python /tmp/hudson3083762089535439523.py*23:11:38* /usr/local/bin/python*23:11:38* /usr/local/bin/python:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/local/bin/python:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin/python:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/local/bin/python:/usr/local/bin/*23:11:38* ['/tmp', '/usr/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/lib64/python2.4', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-tk', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages',

>
>
> What on earth is going on???? acording to the path returned.
> /usr/local/bin/python (python2.6) should have been found first, but it
> isn't. How do I insert python 2.6 onto the path correctly?

I have just experienced the same issue with a Mac salve. I couldn't
figure out the reason, but a workaround is to define the PATH variable
in the jenkins configuration for that slave (environment variables
section) with the correct entries. This is automatically propagated to
all jobs on that slave then. You can even reuse the existing path like
foo:${PATH}.

Cheers,
Johannes