Jenkins not able to fetch code from remote git

Question

My jenkins build is suddenly not working now.The error is as follows:-

Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
 > git config remote.origin.url <         


        

Answer 1

In my case, fetching/downloading the remote code was quite slow and was aborted due to a timeout. So I increased the "Timeout (in minutes) for clone and fetch operations" to 20 minutes.

Answer 2

I fixed the issue cleaning every git directory stored on /var/lib/jenkins/caches:

 ls
git-18890751adbbb4acf793765536038794      git-4e3aa803edee6bea2129fd817c36f896      git-9f242af77f8053aed6fedce8d0a76e3d      git-e41ee04648298b79b4c7743c24ef70bd  git-fceab3b3b569be214a737dca642e9276
git-18890751adbbb4acf793765536038794@tmp  git-4e3aa803edee6bea2129fd817c36f896@tmp  git-9f242af77f8053aed6fedce8d0a76e3d@tmp  git-e41ee04648298b79b4c7743c24ef70bd@tmp  git-fceab3b3b569be214a737dca642e9276@tmp
git-3733802e4022f95fbc60b4cb18a03217      git-551e81c26de5bcb6a5378e19af1e1be6      git-abf9e4e7e290be76e1f5b71ec660963e      git-e707f9321b2bb37b96406ef713030927
git-3733802e4022f95fbc60b4cb18a03217@tmp  git-551e81c26de5bcb6a5378e19af1e1be6@tmp  git-abf9e4e7e290be76e1f5b71ec660963e@tmp  git-e707f9321b2bb37b96406ef713030927@tmp
git-383d5f162d992a4ab05c37bf92f5a6a6      git-778102e2deb4f6ba3affffd2a6598b243c      git-c0a299dd0e54280fdc284e0f84116c25      git-ee5e64ec787f47fcbc3d1fb72b7f3431
git-383d5f162d992a4ab05c37bf92f5a6a6@tmp  git-778102e2deb4f6ba3affffd2a6598b243c@tmp  git-c0a299dd0e54280fdc284e0f84116c25@tmp  git-ee5e64ec787f47fcbc3d1fb72b7f3431@tmp
sh-4.2$ rm -rf git*

Answer 3

Try clearing out the workspace files and rebuilding.

Answer 4

Experienced it when Jenkins VM was running out of disk space. Cleaned it up, don't see this problem anymore.

Answer 5

we deleted the branches from gitlab, but the slaves weren't updated so we saw this error. We deleted the workspace and it looks ok

Answer 6

I resolved this error by setting the User Account Control settings to "Never notify" and restarting the machine and reconnecting the node to Jenkins.