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

I have an old jenkins version 1.641, and downloaded the war file of 2.240.1, when run

java -jar jenkins.war

I got similar errors:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: c:\jenkins.jenkins\war\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF (Access is denied) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Unknown Source) at java.io.FileOutputStream.(Unknown Source) at java.io.FileOutputStream.(Unknown Source) at winstone.HostConfiguration.getWebRoot(HostConfiguration.java:278) at winstone.HostConfiguration.(HostConfiguration.java:81) at winstone.HostGroup.initHost(HostGroup.java:66) at winstone.HostGroup.(HostGroup.java:45) at winstone.Launcher.(Launcher.java:172) at winstone.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:362) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at Main._main(Main.java:375) at Main.main(Main.java:151) 2020-02-07 22:06:19.010+0000 [id=1] SEVERE winstone.Logger#logInternal: Container startup failed java.io.FileNotFoundException: c:\jenkins.jenkins\war\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF (Access is denied) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Unknown Source) at java.io.FileOutputStream.(Unknown Source) at java.io.FileOutputStream.(Unknown Source) at winstone.HostConfiguration.getWebRoot(HostConfiguration.java:278) at winstone.HostConfiguration.(HostConfiguration.java:81) at winstone.HostGroup.initHost(HostGroup.java:66) at winstone.HostGroup.(HostGroup.java:45) at winstone.Launcher.(Launcher.java:172) at winstone.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:362) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at Main._main(Main.java:375) at Main.main(Main.java:151)

it is found that the folder c:\jenkins\.jenkins\war did not exist.

After manually created the folder, the new Jenkins works.

Answer 2

I was facing the same issue after i accidently deleted the cache from /var/cache/jenkins. I resolved it by manually creating the jenkins folder in /var/cache/ with the same permission which is there in /var/lib/jenkins and it worked.