Cannot create cache as the path does not exist

[CSchulz]

Jenkins and plugins versions report

Environment

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What Operating System are you using (both controller, and any agents involved in the problem)?

Linux - 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64

Reproduction steps

cache(caches: [[$class: 'ArbitraryFileCache', cacheValidityDecidingFile: 'node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/package.json', compressionMethod: 'ZIP', excludes: '', includes: '**/*', path: '.angular']], defaultBranch: '', maxCacheSize: 0) {
    // some block
}

Expected Results

Cache should be created without any issue.

Actual Results

Cache creation fails with following message "Cannot create cache as the path does not exist"

Anything else?

No response

[repolevedavaj]

@CSchulz can you send me your Jenkinsfile or at least a little bit more context on how you are using the plugin?

[CSchulz]

It is the same context like in #115. Tell me if you need more or what exactly and I will prepare it later. It is used within a node stage and normal stages.

[CSchulz]

Any update on this? Can I provide more details?

[repolevedavaj]

1. Is this happening with the latest plugin release too?
2. If you run something like sh 'ls -l .angular', the folder exists?

[viceice]

Seeing same when using full path:

[Cache for /tmp/.cache/nuget with id 0452b2873148fc3ca2edd47fcf313dd6] Cannot create cache as the path does not exist
[Pipeline] // cache
[Pipeline] sh
+ ls -la /tmp/.cache/nuget
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 132 Jan  9 09:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  19 Jan  9 09:43 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  19 Jan  9 09:43 mcmaster.extensions.commandlineutils
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  19 Jan  9 09:43 minver
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  19 Jan  9 09:43 system.componentmodel.annotations
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  19 Jan  9 09:43 system.io.packaging

cache(maxCacheSize: 250, defaultBranch: 'main', caches: [arbitraryFileCache(path: '/tmp/.cache/nuget', cacheValidityDecidingFile: '**/packages.lock.json', compressionMethod: 'TAR_ZSTD')]) {
  sh 'dotnet restore --locked-mode'
}

sh 'ls -la /tmp/.cache/nuget'

NUGET_PACKAGES="/tmp/.cache/nuget" is set via stage environment

[repolevedavaj]

@viceice is this always happening for if you use a absolute path?

[viceice]

at least in that pipeline, yes. it's running inside a docker container. using a path inside the repo works as expected. but I explicit want it outside, so it's discarded after destroy of the docker container.

[repolevedavaj]

OK I will try it again using a Docker container

[repolevedavaj]

I can now finally reproduce this if I run the pipeline inside a docker container:

pipeline {
   agent {
      docker { image '...' }
   }
   stages {
      stage(...) {
         steps {
            cache(maxCacheSize: ..., caches: [...]) {
                ...
            }
         }
      }
   }
}

It seems that the workspace is in this case just mounted into the container. @viceice is this the way you are using docker?

[viceice]

yes, the workspace is checked out on host and then mounted to the container. that's the way the Jenkins docker agent works.

[repolevedavaj]

Right now I don't see an easy way of supporting paths outside the workspaces, but I will investigate a little bit more to see if the is a way of supporting this. Anyway, I think it would be helpful to at least notify the user in case a path outside the workspace is used.

[viceice]

i think I understand what's happening. the cache is only seeing the host filesystem, that's why I get the path not found. right?

so I'll switch back to paths inside workspace and just remove that in post stage step.

sadly there isn't a Jenkins agent option to clean the workspace after all steps are done, or i just can't find one. 🙃

[repolevedavaj]

Yes exactly. I will add an additional hint if using paths outside the workspace, but yeah I understand the inconvenience ;)

[repolevedavaj]

@CSchulz could this be related to your issue?

[CSchulz]

1. Is this happening with the latest plugin release too?
2. If you run something like sh 'ls -l .angular', the folder exists?

I am not able to update the plugin version for the moment, because we have fixed Jenkins version in Production. The folder is existing.

With absolute path ${workspace}/.angular it works.

[repolevedavaj]

@CSchulz what version are you using right now?

[CSchulz]

@CSchulz what version are you using right now?

Job Cacher plugin 291.v1b_2284da_5dd7

[repolevedavaj]

And which Jenkins version?

[CSchulz]

And which Jenkins version?

CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise 2.346.4.1-rolling

[repolevedavaj]

Thank you for the feedback. If you want, I can create you a build for this version so you can test it. What do you think?

[CSchulz]

In my opinion it is not required, because your suggested workaround is working for me. If this is working with the newest plugin version in all others cases as well, this issue can be closed.

[dannykitchen]

Is this possible at all. Use case. Container running rust. Need to cache the cargo folder that is on the container. As not in workspace currently not possible. Thanks

[repolevedavaj]

I close this issue as the original issue has been resolved. Please open a ticket in case you experience the same error in another situation.