On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> Err, no.
> A "workspace" is where slave doing its work.
> But artifacts made by job(s) are stored in separate place.

Right, but as I said, the directory structure created by Jenkins didn't 
match what the wiki says when we set up Jenkins. So, tt's still worth 
checking the directory structure.


Levente

>
> By analogy to real life: you have a workshop where you produce things,
> and storage where you put them after.
>
> On 24 October 2012 00:43, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
>> Isn't the issue simply that Jenkins is looking for the workspace at the
>> wrong place? When we first set up our Jenkins instance it created the
>> workspace directory at a different place than what the documentation[1]
>> says. There was a workspace directory in the JENKINS_HOME directory with
>> subdirectories for each job IIRC. After the first restart it was looking for
>> the workspace directory at the place suggested by the documentation, so our
>> jobs "disappeared". We fixed the directory structure by hand and everything
>> is fine since then.
>>
>>
>> Levente
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Administering+Jenkins
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Chris Cunnington wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I think I can sketch out a few details.
>>>
>>> 1. The first thing is that this is not a medical emergency. I'm saying
>>> that for my own peace of mind. System administration under duress is no fun
>>> at all.
>>>
>>> 2. The builds are still there. They don't disappear. They just aren't seen
>>> by the webpage. We are not alone in this. It has happened before.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://jenkins.361315.n4.nabble.com/JIRA-JENKINS-11938-Jenkins-loses-builds-when-restarted-td4124991.html
>>>
>>> 3. The problem may be in the reading of an XML file. The solution I've
>>> gleaned so far is that instead of creating another build, I could log in and
>>> press:
>>>
>>> "Reload Configuration from Disk"
>>>
>>> Or I could just try restarting.
>>>
>>> 4. This didn't happen on the older server. It won't last forever on this
>>> one.
>>>
>>> 5. God knows, somebody will come up with a better answer than I can. But
>>> since you're all looking at me at this moment, I say this: "Don't panic. We
>>> still know where our towel is."
>>>
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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> -- 
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko.
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