| The log entry you provided which mentions ssh-agent is from the ssh-agent plugin, not from the Jenkins agent. It is unlikely to be related to the deletion of files which exist in the workspace of a job before the first clone into the workspace. This bug report is describing a very specific condition which only exists when the workspace of a job is not empty the very first time that Jenkins uses the workspace. That is quite rare. Freestyle jobs usually create the workspace on the Jenkins agent the first time the job is run, then they reuse that workspace on later execution of the same job. When the workspace is created, it is empty and the deletion that is described in this bug report is harmless. There are Jenkins plugins which will allow Freestyle jobs to write files into the workspace after the job starts and before the git repository is cloned into the workspace. The deletion behavior described here will delete those files that are created in the workspace before the git repository is first cloned. I was trying to suggest earlier that you should confirm that the workspace where the files are being deleted has not been damaged or partially deleted by some other scripts or changes in your environment. |
