unable to do builds or configure

[Chanda Unmack]

Not sure what happened when, but I'm basically stuck now. I tried looking through https://issues.jenkins-ci.org but did not see the issue. I was not able to report it there as I get the "Oops! Due to the spam problem, we need additional verification for your sign-up request." when trying to sign up for an account.

I tried:

restarting jenkins/tomcat

rebooting the server

upgrading EnvInject plugin as the job I was trying to fix failed right after invoking that

upgrading to 1.609.2 

no improvement

We are using project based security and when I click on configure, it looks like it's logging me out when it fills the screen with the stack trace. The page is unreadable, but from the log file, I do see 

 hudson.ExpressionFactory2$JexlExpression evaluate

WARNING: Caught exception evaluating: it.jobPage in /<pathtojob>/job/<jobname>/submitDescription. Reason: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

...

Caused by: org.acegisecurity.AccessDeniedException: Please login to access job <jobname>

As far as I know, there hasn't been any updates to the server until I tried fixing the issue with a broken build, but I'm pretty sure the permission issue is also causing the builds to fail.

environment (in case it helps):

java 1.7.0_80

tomcat 7

unbuntu 12.04

Any help greatly appreciated

thanks,

chanda

[Chanda Unmack]

Ok so mark this in the news of the bizarre

In trying to figure out what might have changed, in subsequent restarts, the green balls plugin disappeared. I (re)installed it, restarted Jenkins, and poof! the problem vanished. I can configure jobs, create news ones (found that wasn't working either) and actually build now.

no idea what for or why, but as long as it's working now, I'm not going to question it :)

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