Jenkins and Git configuration issue

Question

I have been using Git for sometime now.

Recently, I have started exploring Jenkins and I managed to set it up using the native windows installer. I created a sample project on my local system and built it using Jenkins successfully.

Now, I have a project on remote Server and I want Jenkins to pull this code using Git.

I did the following:

1) Installed the Git Plugin.

2) In Jenkins > Manage Jenkins > Configure System > Git > Git installations -

[also tried C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd\gitk.cmd instead of ....\git.exe]

3) Under the Test project > Configure

4) Finally, tried to build it. But always get timeout error and then failure.

Started by user anonymous
Building in workspace C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\GitTest
 > C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd\git.exe rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree # timeout=10
Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
 > C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd\git.exe config remote.origin.url ssh://git@<the-url-to-the-server>demo_android.git # timeout=10
Fetching upstream changes from ssh://git@<the-url-to-the-server>demo_android.git
 > C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd\git.exe --version # timeout=10
 > C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd\git.exe fetch --tags --progress ssh://git@<the-url-to-the-server>demo_android.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* # timeout=60
FATAL: Failed to fetch from ssh://git@<the-url-to-the-server>demo_android.git
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Failed to fetch from ssh://git@<the-url-to-the-server>demo_android.git
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:647)
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.retrieveChanges(GitSCM.java:889)
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:914)
    at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1258)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:622)
    at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:528)
    at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1759)
    at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
    at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:89)
    at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:240)
Caused by: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd\git.exe fetch --tags --progress ssh://git@<the-url-to-the-server>demo_android.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" returned status code 128:
stdout: 
stderr: ssh: connect to host git.us1.adeptra.com port 7999: Bad file number
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1435)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandWithCredentials(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1223)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.access$300(CliGitAPIImpl.java:85)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$1.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:280)
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.fetchFrom(GitSCM.java:645)
    ... 10 more

What am I doing wrong? Do i need to provide credentials? (I tried that it failed too)

Answer 1

Solved it ! The SSH key had a passphrase. I removed it and it worked fine.

Removed the passphrase by following the instructions in the link -

http://www.thinkplexx.com/learn/howto/security/ssl/remove-passphrase-password-from-private-rsa-key