Jenkins Subversion Error - E200015: No credential to try. Authentication failed

Question

I've updated the Subversion plugin of jenkins to version 2.2

Now i get following error for repos which build the first time after the upgrade and for repos where something within an external changed. It works for all other builds as expected.

I tried to add additional credentials but this did not help.

Now i hope someone has an idea what else can be tried to fix this annyoing issue.

The error:

hudson.util.IOException2: revision check failed on http://XXX/svn/XXX/Website/Config/trunk
    at hudson.scm.SubversionChangeLogBuilder.buildModule(SubversionChangeLogBuilder.java:189)
    at hudson.scm.SubversionChangeLogBuilder.run(SubversionChangeLogBuilder.java:132)
    at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.calcChangeLog(SubversionSCM.java:738)
    at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:899)
    at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1411)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:671)
    at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:88)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:580)
    at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1670)
    at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
    at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
    at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:231)
Caused by: org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNCancelException: svn: E200015: OPTIONS /svn/XXX/Website/Config/trunk failed
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.http.HTTPConnection.request(HTTPConnection.java:384)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.http.HTTPConnection.request(HTTPConnection.java:373)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.http.HTTPConnection.request(HTTPConnection.java:361)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.DAVConnection.performHttpRequest(DAVConnection.java:707)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.DAVConnection.exchangeCapabilities(DAVConnection.java:627)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.DAVConnection.open(DAVConnection.java:102)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.DAVRepository.openConnection(DAVRepository.java:1020)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.DAVRepository.getLatestRevision(DAVRepository.java:180)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.ng.SvnNgRepositoryAccess.getRevisionNumber(SvnNgRepositoryAccess.java:118)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.SvnRepositoryAccess.getLocations(SvnRepositoryAccess.java:148)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.ng.SvnNgRepositoryAccess.createRepositoryFor(SvnNgRepositoryAccess.java:45)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.remote.SvnRemoteLog.run(SvnRemoteLog.java:160)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.remote.SvnRemoteLog.run(SvnRemoteLog.java:35)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.SvnOperationRunner.run(SvnOperationRunner.java:20)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc2.SvnOperationFactory.run(SvnOperationFactory.java:1238)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc2.SvnOperation.run(SvnOperation.java:294)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNLogClient.doLog(SVNLogClient.java:967)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNLogClient.doLog(SVNLogClient.java:872)
    at hudson.scm.SubversionChangeLogBuilder.buildModule(SubversionChangeLogBuilder.java:177)
    ... 11 more
Caused by: org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNCancelException: svn: E200015: No credential to try. Authentication failed
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.cancel(SVNErrorManager.java:37)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.cancel(SVNErrorManager.java:32)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.DefaultSVNAuthenticationManager.getFirstAuthentication(DefaultSVNAuthenticationManager.java:185)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.http.HTTPConnection._request(HTTPConnection.java:694)
    at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.http.HTTPConnection.request(HTTPConnection.java:382)
    ... 29 more

Answer 1

Ok after many comments on the official bug report we were able to solve this issue.

So to get it working you have to update to the newest 2.3-snaptshot of the subversion plugin, which can be found here:

https://jenkins.ci.cloudbees.com/job/plugins/job/subversion-plugin/

(Download the .hpi file and install it on your jenkins)

1. After that you have to fix your build. I've written a small tutorial on how you can do this here.
2. open the build configuration
3. scroll down to the source-code-management section
4. click on the "Add additional credentials..." button
5. define as realm the specific identifier for our svn server --> (<prot://ip:port > Company Subversion Repository)
6. • if it should work for a different svn you need to use the realm of this server
7. • checkout a repo on this server via the command-line --> svn --username {username} --password {password} checkout prot://ip:port/svn/repo <-- you can cancel this after it has started the checkout
8. • read all realms available on your mac with this cmd --> find ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/ -type f -exec cat {} + | grep -A 2 realmstring
9. • • there's also another option to get the realmstring. on a pc which was not connected to the svn before, do the following in the therminal: "svn info prot://ip:port/pathtorepo" --> this will output something like "Authentication realm: Company Subversion Repository"
10. select the credentials --> buildmaster/****** (<prot://ip:port> Company Subversion Repository)

NOTE : If you are using svn+ssh, your realm would look like "svn+ssh://server-name" without double-quotes. No pointy brackets, port or realm name needed.

11. save and be happy!