Jenkin's build failing on npm install

Question

I'm setting up an ubuntu server that has jenkins for CI.

When I try to run a build I get failure

Question: How can I make npm install work from my jenkins job?

build 1:

[morningharwood] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/hudson8925730298288495807.sh
+ pwd
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/morningharwood
+ ls
bower.json
client
e2e
Gruntfile.js
karma.conf.js
package.json
protractor.conf.js
server
+ npm install
/tmp/hudson8925730298288495807.sh: 5: /tmp/hudson8925730298288495807.sh: npm: not found
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE

Jenkin build

UPDATE:

~$ pwd
/home/ubuntu

ls -a


.   .bash_history  .bashrc  .config    .gem    .gnupg  .node-gyp  .nvm      .rbenv  .ssh  .viminfo
..  .bash_logout   .cache   .dotfiles  .gemrc  .local  .npm       .profile  .rvm    .vim

Now that I see the .npm

+ /home/ubuntu/.npm/npm install
/tmp/hudson1456103398115324880.sh: 5: /tmp/hudson1456103398115324880.sh: /home/ubuntu/.npm/npm: not found
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE

Configuration Script:

What happens when you run from ssh terminal?

npm WARN engine [email protected]: wanted: {"node":"~0.8 || ~0.10"} (current: {"node":"0.11.14","npm":"2.0.0"})
npm ERR! Linux 3.13.0-36-generic
npm ERR! argv "/home/ubuntu/.nvm/v0.11.14/bin/node" "/home/ubuntu/.nvm/v0.11.14/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v0.11.14
npm ERR! npm  v2.0.0
npm ERR! path /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/morningharwood/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13

npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/morningharwood/node_modules'
...

So I've CHOWN the folder:

   + pwd
    /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/morningharwood
   sudo chown ubuntu /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/morningharwood/ -Rv
   ...

Ran npm install after that npm install

It was successful!

NEW PROBLEM: My build now fails when trying to clone the repository from github via jenkins.

Console log

    Started by user matthew harwood
Building in workspace /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/morningharwood
 > git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree # timeout=10
Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
 > git config remote.origin.url [email protected]:matthewharwood/morningharwood.git # timeout=10
ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'
ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'
Finished: FAILURE

Showing owners:

ls -la
drwxr-xr-x  3 jenkins jenkins 4096 Dec 26 20:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 jenkins jenkins 4096 Dec 26 08:23 ..
drwxr-xr-x  7 ubuntu  jenkins 4096 Dec 26 20:59 morningharwood

Answer 1

There are several problems here.

It looks like you are using node 0.11. Why? Do you need a feature from that unstable branch?

If not, I would recommend using the nodesource packaged node modules, as described here: https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#usage-instructions

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

This will get you a good installation of node and npm in the global path, visible to both your ubuntu user and the jenkins user.

Finally, /home/ubuntu/.npm/npm is not an executable, but is the cached version of the npm package; /home/ubuntu/.npm is the per-user npm download cache.