After upgrade I can only run jenkins with JENKINS_USER="root" not "jenkins"

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Greg Freeman

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Jun 5, 2019, 1:46:19 AM6/5/19

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I recently updated jenkins, I believe by accident actually, by running yum update on my linux EC2 instance. Since I did this, if the user defined in /etc/sysconfig/jenkins is "root", jenkins launches fine. If I try to keep user="jenkins" though, as it was before the update, the service doesn't start. When I ask for the service status I get "Jenkins dead but PID file exists." The log file doesn't give much information because there are no exceptions. When I try to run the war file manually from the command line I have the same symptoms, and it just says "killed" when it dies off.

My searching around for solutions to this issue seems to point to it being a directory ownership problem. I have updated the ownership to jenkins:jenkins recursively on /var/lib/jenkins (my jenkins home) /var/cache/jenkins and /var/log/jenkins but I am still running in to this issue. I am wondering if it's possible there is a permission somewhere that I am missing, possibly something related to the version of Jenkins I now have installed.