How are you running Jenkins? Are you running as a service? Does the service have permission to interact with the desktop?
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:51 PM, jo2dad <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm working on a project that uses Jenkins to run MATLAB (on Windows). > The MATLAB function uses the ActiveX server to start PowerPoint, open (or > create) a file, put plots on slides, save the file and then exit PowerPoint. > > The problem I'm having is that the PowerPoint executable won't quit, and > the Jenkins job hangs until I kill it. I've run the same MATLAB function > outside of Jenkins, from the MATLAB command line, and even in a DOS command > window, and PowerPoint exits with no problem. I finally wrote a separate > Jenkins job that uses "tasklist" and "taskkill" to locate and kill the > PowerPoint executable. > > I wrote this job originally for Hudson and don't recall that this was a > problem. Does anyone have any experience with this? I'd prefer that the > MATLAB function kills PowerPoint, without having to call a separate job. > > It's not clear whether this is a Jenkins, PowerPoint or MATLAB problem, > but because I only see this problem when I use Jenkins, I figured I'd start > here. > > Thanks, > jo2dad > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Website: http://earl-of-code.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
