Jenkins User Has Root as Home - again?

gabriele.faelli 2020-07-07 18:00:06 UTC #1

Keywords: Jenkins - Google Cloud Platform - Technical issue - Other
bnsupport ID: a2865711-6274-3a2b-270e-d77a19c8eebd
Description:
Hi!
I'm running Jenkins from the GCP Marketplace and it has the env var HOME set to /root and this breaks my jobs when trying to access the user home dir.
On OS side the user `jenkins' has the correct home dir and if I manually change it in every sh step in my pipeline it works correctly... but this is a really bad workaroud.

I'm looking for a solution to fix this problem.
Any suggestion?

jota 2020-07-08 07:08:51 UTC #2

Hi @gabriele.faelli,

I just created a test job in a new Jenkins deployment and got /root when printing $HOME.

[testjob] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/jenkins3953921664978374106.sh
+ echo Test echo, printing HOME env var
Test echo, printing HOME env var
+ echo /root
/root
Finished: SUCCESS

Our team will take a look at the configuration and will let you know how to proceed.

Thanks

marcos 2020-07-09 18:10:23 UTC #3

Hi, we have identified a fix and are working on releasing a new revision. We'll keep you posted.

marcos 2020-07-10 16:20:21 UTC #4

Just wanted to let you know that Jenkins was released in Bitnami. It is being published to cloud marketplaces, which may take some time, but in the meantime just letting you know to keep an eye on this in case you wanted to deploy the new solution.

Thanks for the report!

gabriele.faelli 2020-07-10 16:43:25 UTC #5

So... any fix to apply?
Do really I have to deploy a new server and migrate all the data?

marcos 2020-07-13 17:06:53 UTC #6

Hi @gabriele.faelli, to fix it on your instance, edit the following file:

/root/.nami/components/com.bitnami.jenkins/helpers.js

Modify the following line:

    env: {JENKINS_HOME: $app.homeDir},

To this:

    env: {JENKINS_HOME: $app.homeDir, HOME: $app.homeDir},

After restart Jenkins and it should work properly:

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart jenkins

We also wanted to let you know that the revision of the Bitnami Jenkins stack was already released, in case you prefer to launch the new instance with the data.

gabriele.faelli 2020-07-15 08:34:44 UTC #7

the fix works like a charm!

Thank you to the team for the support provided!
great job!

marcos 2020-07-15 14:24:05 UTC #8

Glad to hear! I'm marking this as solved, but don't hesitate to come back if you find a similar issue in the future.

marcos 2020-07-15 14:24:09 UTC #9

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