Having trouble starting Jenkins: “java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/java/jenkins/war/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (No such file or directory)”

Question

I just downloaded the Jenkins WAR, version 1.651.1. I’m trying to set it up on my Amazon Linux box. I’m running Java 1.7. I moved the WAR into its own directory, /usr/sha

Answer 1

My two cents: not only must be jenkins user be the owner of $JENKINS_HOME, it looks like it also has to be the owner of jenkins.war (not just have access to it). Found out the hard way while configuring sytemd unit file for Jenkins.

Answer 2

I think it is a permission related issue.

I guess the user and group owner isset to a different user than what jenkins was trying to run as. Try to set it correctly with:

$sudo chown -R <jenkins_user><jenkins_group> /usr/share/java/jenkins/

Answer 3

“java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/java/jenkins/war/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (No such file or directory)”

Guys be chill.

Just run below command.

mkdir /var/cache/jenkins;chown jenkins:jenkins /var/cache/jenkins;

and the start the app.

Answer 4

In my case, I had this problem because a user named "jenkins" was already created on my Mac.

After:

1. uninstalling the broken Jenkins with '/Library/Application Support/Jenkins/Uninstall.command',
2. removing the "jenkins" user,
3. and re-installing from https://jenkins.io/download

--> everything worked smoothly.

Answer 5

I had exactly the same issue. Unable to change the user, I changed the hosted port by appending --httpPort=9090 to my java run command.

$ java -jar /usr/share/java/jenkins/jenkins.war --httpPort=9090

Answer 6

Probably the userid that you are using is not the owner of JENKINS_HOME.

This has happened to me on Vagrant, when trying to use the jenkins user on a JENKINS_HOME owned by vagrant. jenkins did have write permissions to on JENKINS_HOME, but it is not enough: it has to be the owner.

I learned this because when I tried sudo -u jenkins touch file-in-jenkins-home I got touch: setting times (...): Operation not permitted. And then I found https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/64848/cannot-touch-m-a-writable-file