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Q&A Jenkins failed to delete a file - why? How to prevent?

I don't know how to prove or discover this, but anyway. This error happens when Jenkins job is interrupted while the P4 plugin is doing what it calls "reconcile". A "reconcile" is a special form o...

posted 1y ago by anatolyg‭  ·  edited 1y ago by anatolyg‭

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#2: Post edited by user avatar anatolyg‭ · 2022-09-13T09:04:56Z (over 1 year ago)
  • I don't know how to prove or discover this, but anyway.
  • This error happens when Jenkins job is interrupted while the P4 plugin is doing what it calls "reconcile". A "reconcile" is a special form of downloading, which is supposed to do it faster and/or more cleanly.
  • P4 plugin has several bugs related to "reconcile": [1](https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-60430), [2](https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-60447). They are probably not going to be fixed. A workaround is to never do "reconcile" but to delete all files and download them by force. The job settings-page calls this "Force Clean and Sync … (Inefficient and NOT RECOMENDED)".
  • I don't know how to prove or discover this, but anyway.
  • This error happens when Jenkins job is interrupted while the P4 plugin is doing what it calls "reconcile". A "reconcile" is a special form of downloading, which is supposed to do it faster and/or more cleanly.
  • P4 plugin has several bugs related to "reconcile": [1](https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-60430), [2](https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-60447). They are probably not going to be fixed. A workaround is to never do "reconcile" but to delete all files and download them by force. The job settings-page calls this "Force Clean and Sync … (Inefficient and NOT RECOMENDED)".
  • Either that or "never stop any running job" as a policy. The latter is unintuitive and hard to enforce; in our case, some compound jobs are configured to stop all sub-jobs if one of them fails.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar anatolyg‭ · 2022-09-13T09:02:53Z (over 1 year ago) 
I don't know how to prove or discover this, but anyway.

This error happens when Jenkins job is interrupted while the P4 plugin is doing what it calls "reconcile". A "reconcile" is a special form of downloading, which is supposed to do it faster and/or more cleanly.

P4 plugin has several bugs related to "reconcile": [1](https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-60430), [2](https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-60447). They are probably not going to be fixed. A workaround is to never do "reconcile" but to delete all files and download them by force. The job settings-page calls this "Force Clean and Sync … (Inefficient and NOT RECOMENDED)".