now getting 401 unauthorized in jenkins when deploying artifact to archiva maven repo

Question

This used to work before I upgraded Jenkins to 1.494. Now I get this error in Jenkins when using the build promotion plugin to copy the war artifact to the snapshot repo:

    ERROR: Failed to deploy artifacts: Could not transfer artifact com.blah.data:RestWebServices:war:1.0-20121224.163825-2 from/to archiva.apache.snapshots (http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots): Failed to transfer file: http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots/com/blah/data/RestWebServices/1.0-SNAPSHOT/RestWebServices-1.0-20121224.163825-2.war. Return code is: 401, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized.
org.apache.maven.artifact.deployer.ArtifactDeploymentException: Failed to deploy artifacts: Could not transfer artifact com.blah.data:RestWebServices:war:1.0-20121224.163825-2 from/to archiva.apache.snapshots (http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots): Failed to transfer file: http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots/com/blah/data/RestWebServices/1.0-SNAPSHOT/RestWebServices-1.0-20121224.163825-2.war. Return code is: 401, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized.
    at org.apache.maven.artifact.deployer.DefaultArtifactDeployer.deploy(DefaultArtifactDeployer.java:141)
    at hudson.maven.reporters.MavenArtifactRecord.deploy(MavenArtifactRecord.java:190)
    at hudson.maven.RedeployPublisher.perform(RedeployPublisher.java:173)
    at hudson.plugins.promoted_builds.Promotion$RunnerImpl.build(Promotion.java:187)
    at hudson.plugins.promoted_builds.Promotion$RunnerImpl.doRun(Promotion.java:141)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:586)
    at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1543)
    at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1489)
    at hudson.plugins.promoted_builds.Promotion.run(Promotion.java:106)
    at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
    at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:236)
Caused by: org.sonatype.aether.deployment.DeploymentException: Failed to deploy artifacts: Could not transfer artifact com.blah.data:RestWebServices:war:1.0-20121224.163825-2 from/to archiva.apache.snapshots (http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots): Failed to transfer file: http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots/com/blah/data/RestWebServices/1.0-SNAPSHOT/RestWebServices-1.0-20121224.163825-2.war. Return code is: 401, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized.
    at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultDeployer.deploy(DefaultDeployer.java:280)
    at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultDeployer.deploy(DefaultDeployer.java:211)
    at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultRepositorySystem.deploy(DefaultRepositorySystem.java:443)
    at org.apache.maven.artifact.deployer.DefaultArtifactDeployer.deploy(DefaultArtifactDeployer.java:137)
    ... 10 more
Caused by: org.sonatype.aether.transfer.ArtifactTransferException: Could not transfer artifact com.blah.data:RestWebServices:war:1.0-20121224.163825-2 from/to archiva.apache.snapshots (http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots): Failed to transfer file: http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots/com/blah/data/RestWebServices/1.0-SNAPSHOT/RestWebServices-1.0-20121224.163825-2.war. Return code is: 401, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized.
    at org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonRepositoryConnector$4.wrap(WagonRepositoryConnector.java:951)
    at org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonRepositoryConnector$4.wrap(WagonRepositoryConnector.java:941)
    at org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonRepositoryConnector$PutTask.run(WagonRepositoryConnector.java:837)
    at org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonRepositoryConnector.put(WagonRepositoryConnector.java:467)
    at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultDeployer.deploy(DefaultDeployer.java:274)
    ... 13 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.wagon.TransferFailedException: Failed to transfer file: http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots/com/blah/data/RestWebServices/1.0-SNAPSHOT/RestWebServices-1.0-20121224.163825-2.war. Return code is: 401, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized.
    at org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon.put(AbstractHttpClientWagon.java:613)
    at org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon.put(AbstractHttpClientWagon.java:509)
    at org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon.put(AbstractHttpClientWagon.java:490)
    at org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon.put(AbstractHttpClientWagon.java:470)
    at org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonRepositoryConnector$PutTask.run(WagonRepositoryConnector.java:811)
    ... 15 more

I have the creds in the settings.xml file:

<server>
      <id>snapshots</id>
      <username>deployment</username>
      <password>deployment</password>
    </server>

Not sure why this all of a sudden stopped working with 1.494. I downgraded incrementally to 1.491 and it still happened. Very frustrating.

Answer 1

You already proved yourself that this is not a pure Jenkins issue by downgrading. Since the password lies in settings.xml, try running this from within Jenkins mvn help:effective-settings. This would give you what exactly the settings are, at run time and whether the password is in there.

Also try checking the spelling for your <id>snapshots</id> and <username>deployment</username>. I just hit this error somewhere today, where a user was releases instead of release and maven was giving forbidden errors