Here is the output after the build/web.config transformation:
Copying all files to temporary location below for package/publish:
obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp.
Publishing folder /...
Site was published successfully path_goes_here
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 0 failed, 1 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
========== Publish: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========
yet when it loads the root folder, nothing is there. Going to the site gives a Server Error of
401 - unauthorized: access is denied due to invalid credentials
understandable considering nothing is in that directory, I believe. If possibly misleading.
To work around this issue, I copied and pasted the release of the deployment server to the production server. I didn't have access issues doing this so I don't believe it was preventing me from deploying due to permissions.
How do I troubleshoot this particular scenario?
I tried the following which had worked for other people, hopefully one may work for you:
Publish as release, then go back and publish as debug again.
Publish as web deploy package then go back and publish to filesystem.
Reinstalling VS2012=0 worked until an update upgraded my Publish dialog.
None worked for me though, so the workaround I came up with is to publish as web deploy package - which actually contains the files that would be in the file system folder - get the files (from the PackageTmp folder) and deploy as before.
I found that a DLL reference was missing from one of the projects but I fixed that by adding it, unused, to the start up project, which causes it to be recognised and published.
Hope this helps.
I have tried it with /A:Basic, worked for me
/A:
Specifies the type of authentication to be used. The possible values are NTLM and Basic. If the wmsvc provider setting is specified, the default authentication type is Basic; otherwise, the default authentication type is NTLM.
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I'm completely new to trying to implement GitLab's CI/CD pipelines, but it's been going quite well. In fact, for my ASP.NET project, if I specify a Publish Profile in the msbuild command that uses Web Deploy, it actually deploys the code successfully to the web server.
However, I'm now wanting to have the "build" job create artifacts which are uploaded to GitLab that I can then subsequently deploy. We're using a self-hosted instance of GitLab, for which I'm not an admin, but I can speak to the admin if I know what I'm asking for!
So I've configured my gitlab-ci.yml file like this:
variables:
NUGET_PATH: 'C:\Program Files\Nuget\Nuget.exe'
NUGET_SOURCES: 'https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json'
MSBUILD_PATH: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\MSBuild\Current\Bin\msbuild.exe'
stages:
- build
build-job:
variables:
CI_DEBUG_TRACE: "true"
stage: build
script:
- '& "$env:NUGET_PATH" restore ApplicationTemplate.sln -Source "$env:NUGET_SOURCES"'
- '& "$env:MSBUILD_PATH" ApplicationTemplate\ApplicationTemplate.csproj /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:Configuration=Release /p:PublishProfile=FolderPublish.pubxml'
artifacts:
paths:
- '.\ApplicationTemplate\bin\Release\Publish\'
The output shows that this builds the code just fine, and it also seems to successfully find the artifacts for upload. However, when it uploads the artifacts, even though the request gets a 200 OK response, the process fails. Here is the log output:
So, it finds the artifacts, it attempts to upload them and even gets a 200 OK response (in contrast to the handful of similar reports of this error I've been able to find online), but it still fails due to an invalid argument.
I've already enabled verbose debugging, as you can see from the output, but I'm none the wiser. Looking at the GitLab Runner entries in the Windows Event Log on the box where the runner is hosted doesn't shed any light on things either. The total size of the artifacts is 61.1MB, so I don't think my issue is related to that.
Can anyone see from this output what's invalid? Can I identify which argument is invalid and/or why it's invalid?
Edit: Things I've tried
Specifying a value for artifacts:expire_in.
Setting artifacts:public to FALSE, since I'm using a self-hosted GitLab environment and the default value for this setting (TRUE) is not valid in such an environment.
Trying every format I can think of for the value of the artifacts:paths setting (this seems to be incredibly robust - regardless of the format I use, the Runner seems to have no problem parsing it and finding the files to upload).
Taking a cue from this question I created a new project with a very simple build job to upload a single file:
stages:
- build
build-job:
variables:
CI_DEBUG_TRACE: "true"
stage: build
script:
- echo "Test" > test.txt
artifacts:
paths:
- test.txt
About 50% of the time this job hangs on the uploading of the artifacts and I have to cancel it. The other half of the time it fails in exactly the same way as the my previous project:
After countless hours working on this, it seems that ultimately the issue was that our internal Web Application Firewall was blocking some part of the transfer of artefacts to the server, or the response back from it. With the WAF reconfigured not to block traffic from the machine running the GitLab Runner, the artefacts are successfully uploaded and the job succeeds.
This would have been significantly easier to diagnose if the logging from GitLab was better. As per my comment on this issue, it should be possible to see the content of the response from the GitLab server after uploading artefacts, even when the response code is 200.
What's strange - and made diagnosing the issue even harder - is that when I worked through the issue with the admin of our GitLab instance, digging through logs and running it in debug mode, the artefact upload process was uploading something successfully. We could see, for example, the GitLab Runner's log had been uploaded to the server. Clearly the WAF's blocking was selective and didn't block everything in both directions.
I'm trying out SonarQube using the new MSBuild SonarQube Runner v1.0. If I install a fresh SonarQube server locally, the following command works fine, and I can build my solution directly afterward, call the 'end' command, and have the results published in SonarQube:
MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner.exe begin /key:TestKey /name:TestName /version:1.0.0.0
However, if I run this against an existing SonarQube server that exists on the internal network, it always returns with exit code 1:
15:32:40 Creating config and output folders...
15:32:40 Creating directory: c:\Test\MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner-1.0.itsonar\.sonarqube\conf
15:32:40 Creating directory: c:\Test\MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner-1.0.itsonar\.sonarqube\out
15:32:41 Generating the FxCop ruleset: c:\Test\MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner-1.0.itsonar\.sonarqube\conf\SonarQubeFxCop-cs.ruleset
Process returned exit code 1
It seems to download a lot of the dependencies into /.sonarqube, so communication with the server isn't an issue
Things I've tried:
checked the access.log, server.log and event logs
upgraded the existing server to v5.1.2 (clean install using the guide)
upgraded the sonar-csharp-plugin to v4.1
right-clicked all .jar files on the server and ensured they are unblocked
tried the runner directly on the server
(ongoing) tried debugging the source code (happening somewhere in the pre-process step: success comes back as true, but the error code is 1)
disabled UAC on the server an rebooted
re-installed JRE on both server and client, ensure JAVA_HOME in both PATH and registry are set correctly
Any help or pointers greatly accepted. I've been stuck on this for 2 days and can't think of anything else to try except continue trawling through source code. Thank you.
This is a tricky one! Looking at the code, I see only one path that can yield this output:
It fails while generating the FxCop ruleset for C#, as the VB.NET FxCop ruleset message is not logged - see TeamBuildPreProcessor.cs#L149 and TeamBuildPreProcessor.cs#L185
The GenerateFxCopRuleset() call for C# threw a WebException, leading to the call of Utilities.HandleHostUrlWebException() - which has to return true for the exception to be silently swallowed - see Utilities.cs#L153
The only path returning true without logging any message is if a HttpStatusCode.NotFound was received - see Utilities.cs#L158
The control flow goes back to FetchArgumentsAndRulesets(), which returns false, then goes back to Execute() which returns false as well - see TeamBuildPreProcessor.cs#L106
The MSBuild SonarQube Runner "begin" phase (called "preprocessor" in the code) fails - see Program.cs#L42
So, at some point, some SonarQube web service required for the C# FxCop ruleset generation is return a HTTP 404 error.
Could you monitor your network traffic and listen for the failing HTTP call? [I will keep on updating this answer afterwards]
EDIT: Indeed the error is caused by the quality profile name containing special characters. Such characters are currently badly URL-escaped, which leads to a 404.
I've created the following ticket to fix this issue in the upcoming release: http://jira.sonarsource.com/browse/SONARMSBRU-125
We have a server PC and other client PCs working connected to server using LAN. We have a application for our internal use which is developed using VB.Net. I used steps in http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/17003/ClickOnce-Quick-steps-to-Deploy-Install-and-Update to deploy clickone statergy for updating our application.After publishing while installing application,this error is coming
I searched i details and found this error
ERROR SUMMARY
Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
* Activation of D:\Desktop\publish\Global.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
+ Downloading file:///D:/Desktop/publish/Application Files/Global_1_0_0_0/Global.XmlSerializers.dll.deploy did not succeed.
+ Could not find file 'D:\Desktop\publish\Application Files\Global_1_0_0_0\Global.XmlSerializers.dll.deploy'.
+ Could not find file 'D:\Desktop\publish\Application Files\Global_1_0_0_0\Global.XmlSerializers.dll.deploy'.
+ Could not find file 'D:\Desktop\publish\Application Files\Global_1_0_0_0\Global.XmlSerializers.dll.deploy'.
I have checked Application files in publish options and Global.XmlSerializers.dll is included. Anyone know why this is happening?
Is there any way to copy some extra files to installation folder(C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Apps..) when installing or updating clickone application? Because we use some outside support files for our application. Is it possible?
Is there any way to pass argument to clickone application short cut,like passing argument to .exe shortcut("\Global.exe" ?/?customer?/?)?
EDIT:
This is how I published
I checked by giving network path for publishing folder location.But same error coming.
Here is application files included
As you can see Global.XmlSerializers.dll is included
It is looking for a file on the D: drive. It is unlikely that your users all have their D drive mapped to the same location. When you publish you should use the full path rather than mapped drive letters.
//Servername/shareddirectory/appdirectory
Does the install work for you?
Well, there no magic involved in ClickOnce: you can just look into the deployment folder - is the required file there or not?
If not, you need to change the settings in the Publish options for the required file. This message - in my experience - is always a sign that one of the required assemblies has not been published.
In addition it seems that you published to a mapped network drive instead of publishing to an UNC path. You need to publish to a path following the \\server\name\ scheme.
When I have used the wizard and deployed to a network share, in the Publish Wizard:
Specify the location to publish this application:
UDP Path
Click Next
How will users install the application?
From a UNC path of file share
Specify the UNC path:
The same UDP Path (copy pasted from before)
Background:
I have several builds running on a Windows Server 2003 R2 machine via TFS2010. All of these build definitions have the Path to Publish Symbols set to "\\server\SymbolStore" and the builds run fine.
(Note - I have inherited this set up from a former employee, and I also have other builds running on a separate 2K8 machine that also run without issue)
I am now migrating these builds to a new Windows 2008 R2 build server using the same settings.
Problem:
When running the builds on the new build machine, everything is working fine until the build tries to run the "Publish Symbols" activity in the workflow, at which point I get the error
SYMSTORE ERROR: Class: Server. Desc: Couldn't connect to server.
Error 5: Access is denied. TF270015: 'symstore.exe' returned an
unexpected exit code. Expected '0'; actual '5'.
which also sets the build status to Partially Succeeded.
I have searched the web for these error messages to no avail so far, so does anyone know what might be causing this and how to get it working again?
As always, thanks in advance
Did you check the folder has the right permissions for the service account that is used by Team Build to create/write files ?
Turns out that after I had set up the new build machine, I had left the Credentials for the Build Service Properties (found in the Team Foundation Server Administration Console/Build Configuration) to its default setting which is "NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService". Once I had changed this to use the build service account, the builds are able to write to the symbol store properly
I have a build step that is part of my deployment configuration. My coworker told me it had worked once in a blue moon
I kept on getting this error consistently when I ran this build step:
Deleting dirPath (qa.comedy.net\aspnet_client\system_web\4_0_30319). [15:22:22]:
[VSMSDeploy] C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.\We
\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets(3588, 5): Web deployment task failed.((3/28/2012 3:22:22 PM) An error occurred when the request was processed on the remote computer.)
Attempt to perform an unauthorized operation on file '4_0_30319'.
It seems that it is trying to delete the folder
aspnet_client\system_web\4_0_30319 , but has no permission to.
we run this build on a virtual machine.
Any suggestions on how to resolve this?
All help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I had this issue deploying as site with msdeploy and teamcity. I resolved it by deleteing these folders from my website aspnet_client\system_web\4_0_30319
Yes you can delete this folder and the next deploy will work, but with the next windows update that runs the asp.net registration tool as part of it's install will add this folder back to all asp.net sites on IIS (with the incorrect permissions) - so your deployment will fail again. You can avoid this by
Giving the deploy user elevated privileges (not a great solution for
obvious reasons)
Add the folder structure to your SC so it gets
deployed instead of the deployment trying to delete it (not ideal, but easiest)
Stop automatic windows updates (not sensible)
You might be able to do
something like this
http://blog.richardszalay.com/2012/12/18/demystifying-msdeploy-skip-rules/
to ignore the folder in deployment (I've not tried this)
As MemeDeveloper mentions in their answer, one way to fix this is to simply ignore that directory. Indeed, this is the easiest fix and doesn't require adding anything to your source control repository or build output. Just add the following to your msdeploy.exe command:
-skip:Directory="aspnet_client"
I wasn’t using TeamCity but I think I also had this issue. I was trying to deploy to Discount ASP.NET using VS2010 WebDeploy. After reading what doglin and Dan posted, I found I could workaround this problem by checking the “Leave extra files on destination (do not delete)” box. That may not be an option for everyone but it worked for me.
I faced the same problem during WebDeploy in TeamCity. I end up elevating privileges for WebDeploy account under which I do WebDeploy task. So the account have enough power to delete those folder (local admin role).