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mogoli

Reputation: 2375

Jenkins hangs at git fetch

I'm a beginner with Jenkins and I'm trying to get it to run some unit tests in my.NET project.

When I run a build it hangs when trying to fetch from the Git repository.

ERROR: Timeout after 10 minutes
 > C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe config --local --remove-section credential # timeout=10
ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Failed to fetch from https://github.com/name.of.repo

I've generated the known hosts and copied the .ssh dir to C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile.ssh as per the jenkins instructions at https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Git+Plugin under "Jenkins, GIT plugin and Windows"

I ran ssh [email protected] from the command line and I can successfully authenticate.

What can I try next?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 24739

Answers (4)

mohitmayank
mohitmayank

Reputation: 661

A simpler alternative to using SSH is to add this snippet before running any git command.

echo "https://${GITHUB_USER}:${GITHUB_TOKEN}@github.intuit.com" >> /tmp/gitcredfile
git config --global credential.helper "store --file=/tmp/gitcredfile"

Upvotes: 0

ifeegoo
ifeegoo

Reputation: 7292

Before you try to use SSH to access your remote Git repository instead of username & password,you must pay attention to the Timeout Settings for clone and fetch.

When you have a bad internet connection and a large size of remote repository will cause you clone timeout.

Go to the project settings:Source Code Management -> Additional Behaviours -> Advanced clone behaviours -> Timeout (In Minutes) for clone and fetch operations -> more than 10 minutes.

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And then if you are still have the same problem that the git clone stuck for a long time whether a bad internet connection or a large size of remote repository or not,you can try to use SSH to access your remote Git repository instead of username & password.

Upvotes: 0

Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 3503

I had the same problem as the OP. SSH credentials are stored in Jenkins and work for many other nodes accessing the same repo. I can ssh into the machine as the Jenkins user and do a git clone on the repo using the same SSH repo URL as the Jenkins job ([email protected]:account/repo.git).

As a workaround, I set the git credentials in the Jenkins job to none for now. I assume that allows it to use the credentials stored locally.

It is working now.

Upvotes: 2

Bert Jan Schrijver
Bert Jan Schrijver

Reputation: 1531

This is probably a firewall issue. You can authenticate to Github using SSH (port 22), so that route is working. Your job however is trying to access github via https://github.com (port 443) which timeouts. Try accessing github over ssh by changing the repository url to [email protected]:account/repository.git (you can find this URL on the main page of the repo, dropdown 'Choose a clone URL', option 'SSH'.

Upvotes: 11

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