Jenkins Subversion Error - E200015: No credential to try. Authentication failed

Question

I\'ve updated the Subversion plugin of jenkins to version 2.2

Now i get following error for repos which build the first time after the upgrade and for repos where someth

Answer 1

I'd like to emphasize a point in mikepenz' answer: In the text field Realm of your job configuration (after clicking Add additional credentials...) you don't enter merely your SVN realm but your realm and the complete URL of your external repo. This tripped me up.

So this part of your job config ends up looking like this:

Edit:

As it turns out, the above did not improve the situation: The credential error still occurred and moreover commits to external repos did not trigger Jenkins to build the software.

I followed the recommendation here (that also mentions security concerns with the approach described above) and used modules in Jenkins for my external repositories.

This is how my module configuration looks for an external repo: