| I have a number of jobs that are named differently, and do similar but different operations, but have the same perforce mapping and run the same setup. I wanted to share a workspace amongst all those jobs, so that i can benefit from the p4sync and setup caching. I wrote my jobs like this:
node('myNodeLabel') {
ws('C:\\MyCustomWorkspace') {
stage('Prepare node') {
def p4WsName = 'custom-workspace-${NODE_NAME}'
p4sync credential: 'myCred',
changelog: false,
populate: autoClean(replace: true, quiet: true, delete:false),
workspace: [
$class: 'ManualWorkspaceImpl',
charset: 'utf8',
pinHost: false,
name: p4WsName,
spec: [
allwrite: true,
backup: false,
clobber: true,
compress: false,
line: 'LOCAL',
locked: false,
modtime: false,
rmdir: true,
streamName: '',
type: 'WRITABLE',
view: """\
//depot/... //${p4WsName}/..."""
]
]
}
// Do stuff
}
}
When 2 instances of the job run on the same node, jenkins correctly allocates second workspace at C:\MyCustomWorkspace@2, syncs it etc. After the concurrent runs have finished and I run the job again, there is a high chance that the job will fail during the p4sync step with an error message that's indicating that the p4 root is set incorrectly:
> Path 'C:\MyCustomWorkspace/...' is not under client's root 'C:\MyCustomWorkspace%402'.
More complete console log of the p4 operations:
P4 Task: reverting all pending and shelved revisions.
... p4 revert C:\MyCustomWorkspace/...
+
... rm [abandoned files]
duration: (15ms)
P4 Task: cleaning workspace to match have list.
... p4 reconcile -w -f -e -d C:\MyCustomWorkspace/...
+
duration: 0m 10s
P4 Task: syncing files at change: XXXXXXX
... p4 sync -q C:\MyCustomWorkspace/...@XXXXXXX
+
P4 Task: attempt: 1
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // stage
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // ws
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // node
[Pipeline] End of Pipeline
[BFA] Scanning build for known causes...
[BFA] No failure causes found
[BFA] Done. 0s
ERROR: P4: Task Exception: com.perforce.p4java.exception.P4JavaException: com.perforce.p4java.exception.P4JavaException: hudson.AbortException: P4JAVA: Error(s):
Path 'C:\MyCustomWorkspace/...' is not under client's root 'C:\MyCustomWorkspace%402'.
Repro steps:
1. Create a pipeline job using the code I pasted above and pin it on a single node.
2. Change the //Do stuff to something like a 1 min sleep
3. Start 2 runs of the job, which should run on the same node, and verify that jenkins had created 2 different workspaces. You might want to wait until the p4 sync of the first run has finished before starting the second one.
4. After the 2 runs have finished, start a 3rd run
5. The 3rd run will probably fail. Note: I tried creating my custom workspace inside my jenkins workspace root, and experienced the same issue. |
