Is there anything in the Jenkins log or in the build log that would give any clues?
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:06 PM, jo2dad <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- 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.
