Having trouble starting Jenkins: “java.io.FileNotF

Question

I just downloaded the Jenkins WAR, version 1.651.1. I’m trying to set it up on my Amazon Linux box. I’m running Java 1.7. I moved the WAR into its own directory, /usr/share/java/jenkins, and then set JENKINS_HOME to be that directory. Then I ran the command listed here — https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Starting+and+Accessing+Jenkins . Looked so simple on the web site. But wouldn’t you know it. Got the below error

[davea@mydevbox ~]$ java -jar /usr/share/java/jenkins/jenkins.war 
Running from: /usr/share/java/jenkins/jenkins.war
webroot: EnvVars.masterEnvVars.get("JENKINS_HOME")
Apr 19, 2016 9:29:34 PM winstone.Logger logInternal
INFO: Beginning extraction from war file
Apr 19, 2016 9:29:34 PM winstone.Logger logInternal
INFO: Winstone shutdown successfully
Apr 19, 2016 9:29:34 PM winstone.Logger logInternal
SEVERE: Container startup failed
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/java/jenkins/war/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (No such file or directory)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:221)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:171)
    at winstone.HostConfiguration.getWebRoot(HostConfiguration.java:280)
    at winstone.HostConfiguration.<init>(HostConfiguration.java:83)
    at winstone.HostGroup.initHost(HostGroup.java:66)
    at winstone.HostGroup.<init>(HostGroup.java:45)
    at winstone.Launcher.<init>(Launcher.java:145)
    at winstone.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at Main._main(Main.java:307)
    at Main.main(Main.java:98)

What else do I need to do to get Jenkins started?

Edit: Output in response to the suggestion given ...

[davea@mydevbox ~]$ sudo useradd jenkins
[davea@mydevbox ~]$ sudo chown -R jenkins:jenkins /usr/share/java/jenkins/jenkins.war 
[davea@mydevbox ~]$ 
[davea@mydevbox ~]$ sudo su - jenkins
[jenkins@mydevbox ~]$ java -jar /usr/share/java/jenkins/jenkins.war
Running from: /usr/share/java/jenkins/jenkins.war
webroot: EnvVars.masterEnvVars.get("JENKINS_HOME")
Apr 21, 2016 4:46:08 PM winstone.Logger logInternal
INFO: Beginning extraction from war file
Apr 21, 2016 4:46:08 PM winstone.Logger logInternal
INFO: Winstone shutdown successfully
Apr 21, 2016 4:46:08 PM winstone.Logger logInternal
SEVERE: Container startup failed
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/java/jboss/standalone/deployments/jenkins.war/war/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (No such file or directory)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:221)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:171)
    at winstone.HostConfiguration.getWebRoot(HostConfiguration.java:280)
    at winstone.HostConfiguration.<init>(HostConfiguration.java:83)
    at winstone.HostGroup.initHost(HostGroup.java:66)
    at winstone.HostGroup.<init>(HostGroup.java:45)
    at winstone.Launcher.<init>(Launcher.java:145)
    at winstone.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at Main._main(Main.java:307)
    at Main.main(Main.java:98)

Answer 1

My two cents: not only must be jenkins user be the owner of $JENKINS_HOME, it looks like it also has to be the owner of jenkins.war (not just have access to it). Found out the hard way while configuring sytemd unit file for Jenkins.

Answer 2

Probably the userid that you are using is not the owner of JENKINS_HOME.

This has happened to me on Vagrant, when trying to use the jenkins user on a JENKINS_HOME owned by vagrant. jenkins did have write permissions to on JENKINS_HOME, but it is not enough: it has to be the owner.

I learned this because when I tried sudo -u jenkins touch file-in-jenkins-home I got touch: setting times (...): Operation not permitted. And then I found https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/64848/cannot-touch-m-a-writable-file

Answer 3

I was facing the same issue after i accidently deleted the cache from /var/cache/jenkins. I resolved it by manually creating the jenkins folder in /var/cache/ with the same permission which is there in /var/lib/jenkins and it worked.

Answer 4

I had exactly the same issue. Unable to change the user, I changed the hosted port by appending --httpPort=9090 to my java run command.

$ java -jar /usr/share/java/jenkins/jenkins.war --httpPort=9090

Answer 5

“java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/java/jenkins/war/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (No such file or directory)”

Guys be chill.

Just run below command.

mkdir /var/cache/jenkins;chown jenkins:jenkins /var/cache/jenkins;

and the start the app.

Answer 6

I have an old jenkins version 1.641, and downloaded the war file of 2.240.1, when run

java -jar jenkins.war

I got similar errors:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: c:\jenkins.jenkins\war\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF (Access is denied) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Unknown Source) at java.io.FileOutputStream.(Unknown Source) at java.io.FileOutputStream.(Unknown Source) at winstone.HostConfiguration.getWebRoot(HostConfiguration.java:278) at winstone.HostConfiguration.(HostConfiguration.java:81) at winstone.HostGroup.initHost(HostGroup.java:66) at winstone.HostGroup.(HostGroup.java:45) at winstone.Launcher.(Launcher.java:172) at winstone.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:362) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at Main._main(Main.java:375) at Main.main(Main.java:151) 2020-02-07 22:06:19.010+0000 [id=1] SEVERE winstone.Logger#logInternal: Container startup failed java.io.FileNotFoundException: c:\jenkins.jenkins\war\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF (Access is denied) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Unknown Source) at java.io.FileOutputStream.(Unknown Source) at java.io.FileOutputStream.(Unknown Source) at winstone.HostConfiguration.getWebRoot(HostConfiguration.java:278) at winstone.HostConfiguration.(HostConfiguration.java:81) at winstone.HostGroup.initHost(HostGroup.java:66) at winstone.HostGroup.(HostGroup.java:45) at winstone.Launcher.(Launcher.java:172) at winstone.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:362) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at Main._main(Main.java:375) at Main.main(Main.java:151)

it is found that the folder c:\jenkins\.jenkins\war did not exist.

After manually created the folder, the new Jenkins works.