Help needed connecting windows slave to linux master

[Rivlin Pereira]

Hi All,

Sorry for the double post ... i have asked the same question on jenkins-user group ...  I am trying to connect a windows salve to a linux master on jenkins. When i try to launch a slave from master I see the message below -

Checking if Java exists
java full version "1.6.0_32-b05"
Copying jenkins-slave.xml
Copying slave.jar
Starting the service
Waiting for the service to become ready
ERROR: The service didn't respond. Perphaps it failed to launch?


Any ideas how do i fix this?

my java path that i have configured for the slave from the master is -
C:\Windows\syswow64\java.exe I have also tried c:\Program Files\Java\jdk ...\bin and still the same message.

I have configured jenkins as windows service on the slave which starts up properly. there is one more service jenkins slave which fails to start ... i am wondering if this is the problem?

Thanks,
Rivlin

[Rivlin Pereira]

sorry to repost this guys, but any pointers on this would be really helpful.

Thanks,

[Mark Waite]

You could try first starting the Windows slave using JNLP from a logged in Windows session on the computer.  That would let you confirm connectivity and the ability of the Jenkins slave process to run on the target node.  If that is sufficient, then you could just choose to use that rather than attempt to have the master node start the process on Windows.  That is what we've done, rather than fight with having the master linux node try to run a program on a Windows machine.

Mark Waite

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From: Rivlin Pereira <rivlin....@gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 7:07 AM
Subject: Re: Help needed connecting windows slave to linux master