[JIRA] (JENKINS-61943) Jenkins2, P4 Plugin: Error must create client ' to access local files

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Karl Wirth commented on JENKINS-61943   Re: Jenkins2, P4 Plugin: Error must create client <name>' to access local files Hi David Rodriguez This looks likes it a problem in Maven (possibly P4Maven if you are using it) not P4Jenkins. We see P4Jenkins succesfully doing it's sync against a the client 'jenkins-jenkins-slave-test1-admin-ui-4.2-0' here on a node called 'ip-10-21-2-84': P4 Task: syncing files at change: 290033 (p4):cmd:... p4 sync -q /data/jenkins_home/workspace/admin-ui-4.2/...@290033 p4 sync -q /data/jenkins_home/workspace/admin-ui-4.2/...@290033 Then later on when the Maven command runs: [admin-ui-4.2] $ /data/jenkins_home/tools/apache-maven-3.6.3/bin/mvn -s /data/jenkins_home/maven_repository/settings.xml -Pmycomci clean deploy -B -U -Dit.skip=true we see the error: +LCAAAAAAAAP9b85aBtbiIQSmjNKU4P0+vJLE4u1gvPjexLDVPzxdEuhYV5Rf55ZekOlc7RKnPKH7IxMBQUcQgBdWQnJ9XnJ+TqucMoUEKGSCAEaSwAACsNFCqYAAAAA==[ERROR] Failed to execute goal com.mycom:mycom-build-info-plugin:1.0.14:create (vernum) on project admin.ui: Unable to fetch p4 head version for path/data/jenkins_home/workspace/admin-ui-4.2: P4 process `/bin/sh -c p4 -d /data/jenkins_home/workspace/admin-ui-4.2 changes -m1 ...` returned error code;rc;1;Error message;... - must create client 'ip-10-21-2-84' to access local files. -> [Help 1] ha:////4Lo+a7u/lzaTkq1HGH3U8JSMfSgah36g77z15FvpSvDYAAAAYB When P4CLIENT is not set in the environment we default to using the hostname for the client (in this case 'ip-10-21-2-84'. Looking at the maven docs (https://www.perforce.com/manuals/p4maven/index.html) you may need to explicitly pass the client name onto Maven. Possibly: mvn -Dmaven.scm.perforce.clientspec.name=$P4_CLIENT .....             Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v7.13.12#713012-sha1:6e07c38) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Issues" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-issues+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-issues/JIRA.205823.1587087277000.13032.1587108420387%40Atlassian.JIRA.