Android Emulator Plugin on Jenkins - How to extend timeout?

Question

I've managed to get the Android Emulator plugin setup and working on Jenkins. However, my problem is that it times out after 3 minutes. I am only running it on a very slow nettop Linux box (intel atom) so I imagine it will take MUCH longer to start the emulator.

Is there a way to extend the timeout? It looks like the emulator is starting; For the first few polls, its it reported as offline, then not.

My console output is below.

Thanks

Started by user Si Pickles
[EnvInject] - Loading node environment variables.
Building in workspace /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/mycompany_myapp/workspace
Updating svn://localhost/mycompany/code/trunk/myappProject at revision '2013-08-11T23:03:06.957 +0100'
At revision 98
no change for svn://localhost/mycompany/code/trunk/myappProject since the previous build
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/tools/android list target
[android] Using Android SDK: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb start-server
[android] Starting Android emulator
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/tools/emulator -no-boot-anim -ports 48437,50001 -avd google17 -no-snapshot-load -no-snapshot-save -no-window -no-audio
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 51447 *
* daemon started successfully *
Failed to Initialize backend EGL display
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001
[android] Waiting for emulator to finish booting...
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
error: device offline
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
error: device offline
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
error: device offline
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb disconnect localhost:50001
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
error: device offline
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
error: device offline
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
error: device offline
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb disconnect localhost:50001
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
error: device offline
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
error: device offline
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
error: device offline
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb disconnect localhost:50001
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb disconnect localhost:50001
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb disconnect localhost:50001
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb disconnect localhost:50001
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb disconnect localhost:50001
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb disconnect localhost:50001
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s localhost:50001 shell getprop dev.bootcomplete

$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb connect localhost:50001

[android] Timed-out after waiting 180 seconds for emulator
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb disconnect localhost:50001
[android] Stopping Android emulator

emulator: WARNING: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, using software renderer.
$ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb kill-server

Archiving artifacts
Finished: NOT_BUILT

Answer 1

Which android OS version are you trying to use?

If you are using anything higher than Android 2.2 or 2.3.3 I would recommend changing your Android OS version to these because they boot up much faster.

Also, if you click the Advanced... button located under the "Common emulator options" header on the Jenkins configure page you could try playing around with setting up a Startup delay. This might help if your build requires a lot of processing before actually using the emulator for anything.

Apologies for the hybrid Answer/Comment, I would have just commented if I had the rep.