Renovate bot currently failing

[edalex-ian]

Our renovate bot is currently failing to do updates - and has for some time:

The only WARN I'm seeing is (and I see no ERROR or FATAL):

WARN: Gradle run failed
{
  "err": {
    "killed": false,
    "code": 1,
    "signal": null,
    "cmd": "docker run --rm -v \"/mnt/renovate/gh/openequella/openEQUELLA/import-export-tool\":\"/mnt/renovate/gh/openequella/openEQUELLA/import-export-tool\" -w \"/mnt/renovate/gh/openequella/openEQUELLA/import-export-tool\" renovate/gradle gradle --init-script renovate-plugin.gradle renovate",
    "stdout": "To honour the JVM settings for this build a new JVM will be forked. Please consider using the daemon: https://docs.gradle.org/5.6.4/userguide/gradle_daemon.html.\nDaemon will be stopped at the end of the build stopping after processing\nConfiguration on demand is an incubating feature.\n",
    "stderr": "\nFAILURE: Build failed with an exception.\n\n* What went wrong:\nA problem occurred configuring root project 'import-export-tool'.\n> Failed to notify project evaluation listener.\n   > 'org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskInputs org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskInputs.file(java.lang.Object)'\n\n* Try:\nRun with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.\n\n* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org\n\nBUILD FAILED in 28s\n",
    "message": "Command failed: docker run --rm -v \"/mnt/renovate/gh/openequella/openEQUELLA/import-export-tool\":\"/mnt/renovate/gh/openequella/openEQUELLA/import-export-tool\" -w \"/mnt/renovate/gh/openequella/openEQUELLA/import-export-tool\" renovate/gradle gradle --init-script renovate-plugin.gradle renovate\n\nFAILURE: Build failed with an exception.\n\n* What went wrong:\nA problem occurred configuring root project 'import-export-tool'.\n> Failed to notify project evaluation listener.\n   > 'org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskInputs org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskInputs.file(java.lang.Object)'\n\n* Try:\nRun with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.\n\n* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org\n\nBUILD FAILED in 28s\n",
    "stack": "Error: Command failed: docker run --rm -v \"/mnt/renovate/gh/openequella/openEQUELLA/import-export-tool\":\"/mnt/renovate/gh/openequella/openEQUELLA/import-export-tool\" -w \"/mnt/renovate/gh/openequella/openEQUELLA/import-export-tool\" renovate/gradle gradle --init-script renovate-plugin.gradle renovate\n\nFAILURE: Build failed with an exception.\n\n* What went wrong:\nA problem occurred configuring root project 'import-export-tool'.\n> Failed to notify project evaluation listener.\n   > 'org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskInputs org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskInputs.file(java.lang.Object)'\n\n* Try:\nRun with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.\n\n* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org\n\nBUILD FAILED in 28s\n\n    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:294:12)\n    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)\n    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:448:20)\n    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:982:16)\n    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)"
  },
  "cmd": "docker run --rm -v \"/mnt/renovate/gh/openequella/openEQUELLA/import-export-tool\":\"/mnt/renovate/gh/openequella/openEQUELLA/import-export-tool\" -w \"/mnt/renovate/gh/openequella/openEQUELLA/import-export-tool\" renovate/gradle gradle --init-script renovate-plugin.gradle renovate"
}

I note that @ChristianMurphy also had similar issues over in uPortal lands, and I see the CAS peeps also having issues: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/issues/4467

Do you have any thoughts @ChristianMurphy . I notice you're now using a self hosted setup. Is that just a uPortal thing, or a broader Apereo thing, or...?

[ChristianMurphy]

Ideally I'd like to use renovate bot hosted. When issues prevent it, I fallback to hosting it off my developer workstation. Personally I'd rather have renovate self hosted, than not have renovate at all.

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The local setup I have for uPortal is managed with a cron job that runs every 2 hours

0 */2 * * *  /home/developers/scripts/run-renovate.sh

and run-renovate.sh

#/bin/bash

renovate-github Jasig/uPortal-start --git-fs=https

and renovate-github is an alias for renovate --token {github token goes here}

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broader Apereo thing

I'd like it to be a broader Apereo thing, with Apereo footing the bill for paid renovate support for projects; both to prioritize fixing things Apereo projects need, and to support another open source project. But this hasn't happened yet.

[edalex-ian]

Great info there @ChristianMurphy , thanks for that. I think I'll read up on the renovate CLI then and see what I might be able to do.

Thanks.

[edalex-ian]

See also: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/issues/5483

[edalex-ian]

Interestingly, on the week-end renovate bot has kicked off again. Will monitor.

[viceice]

@ChristianMurphy can you tell us at the mentioned renovate issue, what version or renovate you are using? We would like to find the root cause for this fail.

[ChristianMurphy]

@viceice for which mentioned issue? there are two renovatebot/renovate#5483 and renovatebot/renovate#4467

also note the work around I have is for uPortal-start (where I'm using renovate 19.100.0 to prevent a gradle mismatch between renovate and Gradle 4.3 which is used on that project)

I have not tested if that version works with openEquella.

[ChristianMurphy]

renovate bot is up and running again, closing this issue out.