Unable to produce a script file in jenkins

Question

I am using jenkins for periodically building my node.js application. Whenever i am trying to build my application I get this on console output

Started by user anonymous
Building in workspace /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/workspace
FATAL: Unable to produce a script file
java.io.IOException: Failed to create a temp file on /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/workspace
	at hudson.FilePath.createTextTempFile(FilePath.java:1383)
	at jenkins.plugins.nodejs.NodeJsCommandInterpreter.createScriptFile(NodeJsCommandInterpreter.java:108)
	at jenkins.plugins.nodejs.NodeJsCommandInterpreter.perform(NodeJsCommandInterpreter.java:57)
	at jenkins.plugins.nodejs.NodeJsCommandInterpreter.perform(NodeJsCommandInterpreter.java:42)
	at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:20)
	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:785)
	at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.build(Build.java:205)
	at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.doRun(Build.java:162)
	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:537)
	at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1741)
	at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
	at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98)
	at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:410)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Failed to create a temporary directory in /Users/Shared/Jenkins/tmp
	at hudson.FilePath$17.invoke(FilePath.java:1369)
	at hudson.FilePath$17.invoke(FilePath.java:1357)
	at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:991)
	at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:969)
	at hudson.FilePath.createTextTempFile(FilePath.java:1357)
	... 12 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Permission denied
	at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
	at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:2024)
	at hudson.FilePath$17.invoke(FilePath.java:1367)
	... 16 more
Build step 'Execute NodeJS script' marked build as failure
Warning: you have no plugins providing access control for builds, so falling back to legacy behavior of permitting any downstream builds to be triggered
Triggering a new build of job2
Triggering a new build of job2
Finished: FAILURE

What could be the possible reason for this?? Thanks!

Answer 1

Besides checking permission, also make sure there is free space on the machine your trying to save the logs/execute your jenkins job.

Answer 2

Check the permission of the folder in which the script is attempting to create new files /folder. The cause may be that the user that you run the build script with, doesn't have permission to create new files inside that directory.