I'm running Jenkins as a service. There is a Jenkins slave running on the Window box I'm using. I'm not sure how to tell whether the service has permission to interact with the desktop.
The rest of the script runs fine (MATLAB make its figures, PowerPoint opens, does its thing and saves the results), it's just when it gets to the end and tries to close PowerPoint when things go wrong. When I look at processes using Task Manager, MATLAB, PowerPoint and Jenkins show up as NT Authority\SYSTEM. I assumed this meant that everything was running as System user and should have all necessary permissions. On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 5:51:23 PM UTC-5, jo2dad 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.
