java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException at Jenkins build

Question

I'm setting up a Jenkins system at MacOSX Server for an automatically build after a svn checkin. But when the build is starting I get these java error at the console output. Does anyone have experience with Jenkins and these error?

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[EnvInject] - Loading node environment variables.
Baue in Workspace /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/jobs/myProject/workspace
Cleaning local Directory .
java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/jobs/my Project/workspace/./.svn/pristine/04/040d4cd4de48d844246c38e096a78718879bfafb.svn-base
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:84)
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102)
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107)
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.implDelete(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:244)
	at sun.nio.fs.AbstractFileSystemProvider.delete(AbstractFileSystemProvider.java:103)
	at java.nio.file.Files.delete(Files.java:1126)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
	at hudson.Util.deleteFile(Util.java:255)
	at hudson.Util.deleteRecursive(Util.java:318)
	at hudson.Util.deleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:220)
	at hudson.Util.deleteRecursive(Util.java:309)
	at hudson.Util.deleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:220)
	at hudson.Util.deleteRecursive(Util.java:309)
	at hudson.Util.deleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:220)
	at hudson.Util.deleteRecursive(Util.java:309)
	at hudson.Util.deleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:220)
	at hudson.scm.subversion.CheckoutUpdater$1.perform(CheckoutUpdater.java:81)
	at hudson.scm.subversion.WorkspaceUpdater$UpdateTask.delegateTo(WorkspaceUpdater.java:162)
	at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask.perform(SubversionSCM.java:988)
	at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:969)
	at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:945)
	at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:990)
	at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:968)
	at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:894)
	at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:830)
	at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:485)
	at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1276)
	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:607)
	at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)
	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:529)
	at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1738)
	at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
	at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98)
	at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:410)
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Answer 1

This problem is occurring because you don't have permission to execute the job on the Jenkins jobs dir (in your case /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/jobs) or you don't have permission on the jenkins dir /var/lib/jenkins/.

I got the same problem when I tried to copy the jobs dir from a server to another.

To solve this we need to change the owner of jobs to the jenkins user:

sudo chown -R jenkins:jenkins jobs

If this does no solve, the the problem can be with the permission of your var/lib/jenkins dir:

sudo chown -R jenkins:jenkins /var/lib/jenkins/

This will solve your problem.

ps. Maybe you will need to restart your Jenkins application

Answer 2

Seems like the os user which is running jenkins has no write privileges for either the complete workspace directory or some of the files in the workspace directory.