does not create directory in /var/lib/jenkins

[Paul Collins]

Deployed a couple of bionic slaves recently, and they failed to start until I created a couple of missing directories:

sudo install -d -m 0755 -o jenkins -g jenkins -v /var/lib/jenkins/slaves/jenkins-slave-1

The charm should create this itself.

[Tom Haddon (mthaddon)]

Could you include the error from the logs? You mention "until I created a couple of missing directories" but seems like you're only creating one directory here?

[Tom Haddon (mthaddon)]

I've got an MP that addresses this, but want to confirm the failure before setting it to Needs Review

[Paul Collins (pjdc)]

Two directories: /var/lib/jenkins/slaves and then /var/lib/jenkins/slaves/jenkins-slave-1. Creating the first was not sufficient.

[Paul Collins (pjdc)]

The errors were (in /var/log/syslog):

May 15 03:08:39 juju-manual-jenkaas-java-compatibility-kit-bionic-1 bash[19909]: Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /var/lib/jenkins/slaves
May 15 03:11:48 juju-manual-jenkaas-java-compatibility-kit-bionic-1 bash[20160]: Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /var/lib/jenkins/slaves/jenkins-slave-1

which is a pretty unhelpful way to report the non-existence of something.

I just realized my original report was somewhat unclear because this was when I also discovered that install -d works like "mkdir -p"; the command above creates any missing directories.

[Tom Haddon (mthaddon)]

This has been fixed in cs:jenkins-slave-10