jenkins fails while restarting my sql “sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified Sorry, try again.”

Question

I just configured jenkins and in the pre-build steps i am trying to restart jenkins but i end up with the following error

Commencing build of Revision c5b9f8daac         


        

Answer 1

The "no tty present" error indicates that you have the 'requiretty' setting in your sudoers file. In your case, it is probably in /etc/sudoers.d. Once this line is there, it does not matter what group you are in - sudo will require a tty whenever it is executed.

To get around this, you need to either remove (or comment out) the requiretty line in the configuration file, or add a line to exclude your user from the requiretty setting. You can see how to do that here: Disable requiretty per user