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Published Sep. 10, 2025

How to resolve a Jenkins "Failed to rotate logs" error when executing the Project Build Discarder

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Isaac Wilson

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Issue

  • In our -infra service's CI logging, we are seeing frequent errors such as the following:
    build-10 [ci-0] WARNING    j.m.BackgroundGlobalBuildDiscarder#lambda$processJob$0: An exception occurred when executing Project Build Discarder
    build-10 [ci-0] Also:   java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /var/jenkins_home/jobs/project_name/branches/branch_name/builds/10 -> /var/jenkins_home/jobs/project_name/branches/branch_name/builds/.10
      at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:86)
      at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102)
      at sun.nio.fs.UnixCopyFile.move(UnixCopyFile.java:396)
      at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.move(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:262)
      at java.nio.file.Files.move(Files.java:1395)
      at hudson.model.Run.delete(Run.java:1645)
      at hudson.tasks.LogRotator.perform(LogRotator.java:166)
    build-10 [ci-0] jenkins.util.io.CompositeIOException: Failed to rotate logs for [project_name/branch_name #10]
  • Is it possible to resolve these errors?

Environment

  • Liferay PaaS with a CI version equal or lesser to v4.0.7 

Resolution

  • This is a known Jenkins issue (documented in the third party ticket JENKINS-61687), which can be resolved by updating the Jenkins version in use to 2.249.1+.
  • As such, this issue can be resolved in Liferay Cloud by updating the CI image version in use to v4.1.0+, as this release incremented the Jenkins version included in the CI images above Jenkins v2.249.1.

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