Major Experiencing some weird behavior re: tickets and p4 jenkins plugin.
BEFORE:
[~jenkins] root# rm .p4tickets [~jenkins] root# ls -al
NOW GO TO JENKINS, and test password credential
AFTER:
[~jenkins] root# ls -al total 8 drwxr-xr-x+ 4 jenkins staff 136 Mar 10 15:55 ./ drwxr-xr-x 9 root admin 306 Mar 10 15:31 ../ -r-------- 1 root staff 68 Mar 10 15:55 .p4tickets
So the act of testing the password credential adds a ticket file.
Next, I remove .p4tickets and test my ticketed credential. Does not create .p4tickets and test succeeds.
Now I go to a job that depends on ticketed credential I just tested, and run it.
Job fails with:
SEVERE: P4: Unable to use Workspace: com.perforce.p4java.exception.AccessException: Perforce password (P4PASSWD) invalid or unset. com.perforce.p4java.exception.AccessException: Perforce password (P4PASSWD) invalid or unset. at com.perforce.p4java.impl.mapbased.server.Server.handleErrorStr(Server.java:4987) at com.perforce.p4java.impl.mapbased.server.Server.getClient(Server.java:2433) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.p4.client.ClientHelper.clientLogin(ClientHelper.java:69) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.p4.client.ClientHelper.<init>(ClientHelper.java:63) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.p4.tasks.AbstractTask.getConnection(AbstractTask.java:78) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.p4.tasks.AbstractTask.setWorkspace(AbstractTask.java:50) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.p4.PerforceScm.checkout(PerforceScm.java:278) at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1252) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:615) at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:524) at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1706) at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43) at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:232) Mar 10, 2015 4:02:07 PM org.jenkinsci.plugins.p4.tasks.AbstractTask setWorkspace SEVERE: P4: Unable to setup workspace: com.perforce.p4java.exception.AccessException: Perforce password (P4PASSWD) invalid or unset. Mar 10, 2015 4:02:07 PM hudson.model.Run execute INFO: p4ws-main_build_linux-x64 #5 aborted java.lang.InterruptedException: P4: Unable to setup workspace: com.perforce.p4java.exception.AccessException: Perforce password (P4PASSWD) invalid or unset. at org.jenkinsci.plugins.p4.tasks.AbstractTask.setWorkspace(AbstractTask.java:63) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.p4.PerforceScm.checkout(PerforceScm.java:278) at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1252) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:615) at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:524) at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1706) at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43) at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:232)
Finally, I go back and test the password version, which recreates .p4tickets.
Now I use my ticketed credential and it works.
Long story short, $P4TICKETS has to exist before you can use a ticket.
That is unexpected and does not conform to normal p4 command-line behavior, e.g:
$ p4 -p perforce:1666 -P <TICKET-STRING> -u <PERFORCE-USER> login -s User <PERFORCE-USER> ticket expires in 200403 hours 47 minutes.
This works with or without $P4TICKETS file, and does not create it.
