TFS 2015: Publish artifact - “A task was canceled”

Question

Since shortly, I receive "A task was canceled" when running the build task "Publish artifact". The tfs Server is running for a view weeks now and I never had problems with these tasks.

I fixed this issue once with deleting the build output Folder but unfortunately this "workaround" is not working anymore. I tried to change the artifact name in the hope that this could change something... Nothing helped.

Log file output:

2016-04-22T13:04:55.6060280Z Set workingFolder to default: C:\agent\tasks\PublishBuildArtifacts\1.0.26

2016-04-22T13:04:56.0896280Z ##[debug]check path :

C:\agent\tasks\PublishBuildArtifacts\1.0.26\task.json

2016-04-22T13:04:56.0896280Z ##[debug]set resource file to:

C:\agent\tasks\PublishBuildArtifacts\1.0.26\task.json

2016-04-22T13:04:56.0896280Z ##[debug]system.culture=en-US

2016-04-22T13:04:56.0896280Z ##[debug]load strings from:

C:\agent\tasks\PublishBuildArtifacts\1.0.26\task.json

2016-04-22T13:04:56.0896280Z ##[debug]load loc strings from:

C:\agent\tasks\PublishBuildArtifacts\1.0.26\strings\resources.resjson\en- US\resources.resjson 2016-04-22T13:04:56.0896280Z ##[debug]system.hosttype=build

2016-04-22T13:04:56.0896280Z ##[debug]PathtoPublish=C:\agent_work\3\a

2016-04-22T13:04:56.0896280Z ##[debug]check path : C:\agent_work\3\a

2016-04-22T13:04:56.1052280Z ##[debug]ArtifactName=MyArtifact

2016-04-22T13:04:56.1052280Z ##[debug]ArtifactType=Container

2016-04-22T13:04:56.1052280Z ##[debug]TargetPath=\my\share\My Artifact\My Artifact_2.3.16113.06 2016-04-22T13:04:56.2456280Z

Max Concurrent Uploads 2, Max Creators 1

2016-04-22T13:04:56.3392280Z Found 61 files to upload.

2016-04-22T13:04:56.3704280Z Files found locally 61,

2016-04-22T13:04:56.3704280Z Files evaluated 0,

2016-04-22T13:04:56.3704280Z Files left to evaluate 61.,

2016-04-22T13:04:56.3704280Z Files created without upload 0,

2016-04-22T13:04:56.3704280Z Files uploaded 0

2016-04-22T13:04:56.3704280Z Files left to process 61

2016-04-22T13:04:56.3704280Z ---------------------------

2016-04-22T13:04:57.7588280Z Start: UploadArtifact

2016-04-22T13:04:57.7588280Z ##[error]A task was canceled.

2016-04-22T13:04:57.7588280Z End: UploadArtifact

Has anyone experienced something like this? Does anyone has an idea how to solve this?

Thanks a lot for any

Answer 1

After adding the same task once more and removing the "Always Run" check, I got a useful error message:

TF30042: The log file for the database is full. Contact your Team Foundation Server ************ to back up the transaction log for the database to free up some log space. Server: TheServer, Error: 9002, Message: 'The transaction log for database 'Tfs_DefaultCollection' is full due to 'ACTIVE_TRANSACTION'.'.

That solved the case.