Jenkins can't find the build.xml file

[Janez Novak]

Hi,

I'm trying to build a simple example project (available here: http://eureka.ykyuen.info/2013/10/03/apache-ant-a-simple-ant-build-project/) just to see how Jenkins works (I'm new to it and Continuous Integration in general). I tried to do it by following a tutorial (available here: http://eureka.ykyuen.info/2013/10/04/jenkins-setup-a-simple-ant-build-project/).

When I start the build from Jenkins, the build fails and this is the build log:

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Building in workspace /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/com-eureka
FATAL: Unable to find build script at /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/com-eureka/build.xml
Build step 'Invoke Ant' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE
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As you can see, the name of my example project is "com-eureka", and it is located in the /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/ folder. 
Based on the tutorial, the build.xml file should be located in the /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/com-eureka folder.
I've checked and the file is indeed there, but is seems as though Jenkins can't see it.

I'm running Jenkins on localhost, I'm using Ant (I tried with versions 1.9.2 and 1.9.6; I set the Jenkins configuration to download and install Ant automatically).

[Daniel Beck]

Could be a permissions issue. Make sure the user Jenkins runs as is owner of the workspace and everything in it.

Note that you generally want to check out everything from SCM (Subversion, Git,…) rather than prepare a workspace manually.

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[Walter Kelt]

Does the file have proper permissions so that it is readable by Jenkins ?

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[Matic Pajnič]

If I run jenkins on user X, then user X has to be the owner of the files? I'm asking because I also have a user called "jenkins", that's the default owner of the files Jenkins creates when operating.

The project files (including build.xml) are currently owned by user X.

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[Walter Kelt]

To see if it you have a permissions issue, u can use chmod to set read permissions on the file for user/group/other. 

You could also use chown to set a different

Owner

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[Matic Pajnič]

It was indeed a file permissions issue. I solved it by simply setting all the jenkins files and folders to be universally readable/writable.

Thx for helping :)

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