Jenkins 1.625.1 and JRE7 requirement on Debian Installer

[Pierre Fourès]

Hi,

I’ve just installed a new instance of Jenkins and got it silently not starting (however error messages was in the jenkins logs).

The container was set up with JDK6 (thus making Jenkins unable to start due to its new requirements). But as you can see, the command line didn’t report any problem :

root@jenkins:~# service jenkins restart

[ ok ] Restarting Jenkins Continuous Integration Server: jenkins.

In order to prevent this silent failure, maybe the maintainers of the Debian Installer could update the requirement of the .deb to force the jenkins installation to depend on an installed version of the JRE/JDK >= 7, and thus not let jenkins install itself on a system running previous versions of the JRE/JDK. 

One nice improvement could also be to instruct the debian service script to report jenkins starting failures accordingly.

For information, here’s my script to install the jenkins server inside the container :

apt-get update
apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk

wget -q -O - http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/debian-stable/jenkins-ci.org.key | apt-key add -
echo "deb http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/debian-stable binary/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-get update
apt-get install jenkins

Best Regards,
Pierre.

[Daniel Beck]

Please file an issue against the 'packaging' component.

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/How+to+report+an+issue

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[Pierre Fourès]

Hi again,

Issue created : https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-31064

Best Regards,

Pierre.