Jobs are failing when /tmp/tomcat7-tomcat7-tmp does not exist

[Miguel Almeida]

I have been running Jenkins for a long time now.

However, since a couple of days ago my jobs (freestyle maven, mostly) start failing after a few runs.

This is one of the failing logs:

https://gist.github.com/mmalmeida/a1be2985773d25b9a7b645a9608dd461

I upgraded to  Jenkins ver. 2.107.1 just to ensure this was not related to the LTS version I was using. I am running Jenkins in Tomcat

Upon investigating, it seems that the job is failing to create the settings.xml file in the temporary folder (/tmp/tomcat7-tomcat7-tmp).

If I manually re-create the directory in the server, the jobs start working again.

What is strange about this is that:

1. There was no recent change in the server (e.g. that would start deleting the /tmp/tomcat7-tomcat7-tmp folder from time to time)

2. The server does not shutdown (which could explain the deletion of the directory)

Do you have any suggestion on:

1. What could be causing this

2. How to prevent it from happening

Cheers,

Miguel