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jsplaine
jsplaine

Reputation: 621

ubuntu jenkins install failing ~ jenkins stop/pre-start, process 22907 ... nada

I currently have apache2 and tomcat7 running (and serving sites), and want to get jenkins running.

I've tried once before, a while ago, and decided to purge the current installation before moving forward.

sudo apt-get remove jenkins
sudo apt-get purge jenkins

Then I:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install jenkins

and it seems to fail starting up...

.... Unpacking jenkins (from .../jenkins_1.424.6+dfsg-1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up jenkins (1.424.6+dfsg-1) ...
jenkins stop/pre-start, process 22907 ...

xxx:/var/log$ sudo service jenkins status

jenkins stop/waiting

xxx:/var/log$ sudo service jenkins restart

stop: Unknown instance: jenkins stop/pre-start, process 31663

/var/log/jenkins/ is empty, and I can't seem to find anything useful in /var/log/*. I do see, in auth.log, a jenkins user being setup.

Any ideas? : /

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2074

Answers (2)

Josh Kelley
Josh Kelley

Reputation: 58352

/var/log/upstart/jenkins.log will give Upstart's view of whether or not it thinks the Jenkins service is running or should be running.

stop/pre-start means that the pre-start stanza of /etc/init/jenkins.conf is stopping the service - for example, because it's missing a config file, or because it's been disabled under /etc/default/jenkins, or similar.

Upvotes: 0

Alastair Irvine
Alastair Irvine

Reputation: 1176

Purge will fail if the package is not installed. I see you did the following.

sudo apt-get remove jenkins
sudo apt-get purge jenkins

Instead, temporarily set the sources.list to the original, and run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install jenkins
sudo apt-get purge jenkins

Then you can put your mods back and install the non-distro version.

Upvotes: 1

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