Jenkins fails when running “service start jenkins”

Question

I installed jenkins on Cnetos 7 using the following:

sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/jenkins.repo http://pkg.jenkins.io/redhat-stable/jenkins.repo
sudo rpm --impor         


        

Answer 1

Still fighting the same error on both ubuntu, ubuntu derivatives and opensuse. This is a great way to bypass and move forward until you can fix the actual issue.

Just use the docker image for jenkins from dockerhub.

docker pull jenkins/jenkins

docker run -itd -p 8080:8080 --name jenkins_container jenkins

Use the browser to navigate to:

localhost:8080 or my_pc:8080

To get at the token at the path given on the login screen:

docker exec -it jenkins_container /bin/bash

Then navigate to the token file and copy/paste the code into the login screen. You can use the edit/copy/paste menus in the kde/gnome/lxde/xfce terminals to copy the terminal text, then paste it with ctrl-v

War File

Or use the jenkins.war file. For development purposes you can run jenkins as your user (or as jenkins) from the command line or create a short script in /usr/local or /opt to start it.

Download the jenkins.war from the jenkins download page:

https://jenkins.io/download/

Then put it somewhere safe, ~/jenkins would be a good place.

mkdir ~/jenkins; cp ~/Downloads/jenkins.war ~/jenkins

Then run:

nohup java -jar ~/jenkins/jenkins.war > ~/jenkins/jenkins.log 2>&1

To get the initial admin password token, copy the text output of:

cat /home/my_home_dir/.jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

and paste that into the box with ctrl-v as your initial admin password.

Hope this is detailed enough to get you on your way...