Unable to start up with non-default options

[AppPartner]

Originally trying to fix a bug in this plugin (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/TestFairy+Plugin), by adding a custom argument to JVM. But when I start up Jenkins and choose Change Defaults, anything I put, even leaving the fields blank, results in an error.

How to fix this, or is there a different way to modify JVM arguments?

Mac OSX 10.10.1
Jenkins 1.598

[stisti]

Strange... I don't really see how that can happen because there is an exception handler around the code that tries to load preferences file (https://github.com/stisti/jenkins-app/blob/master/utils.applescript#L81) Which Jenkins.app version are you using?

[jeffctown]

I'm having this same issue. @AppPartner - Did you resolve this?

[stisti]

Another idea that occurred to me: Does ~/Library/Preferences exist for you? If it doesn't, could you create that directory and try again.

[tofteit]

I have the same issue!
Any solution to this?

[tofteit]

Seems like the file doesn't exists in the location /Users/[user]/Library/Preferences.
I just tried to take a clean Mac OS X 10.10.2, same problem.

[jeffctown]

My machine had the file there. I played with chmod and chown for a while and couldn't get anything to work. Without being able to modify the JVM settings, my Jenkins kept running out of memory. I ultimately ended up uninstalling this and going back to a LaunchDaemon.

[tigac]

I'm having same issue, any update on this problem?

[tofteit]

Tigac: nope i still have the issue, i hope this will be fixed soon !

[stisti]

Could you show me the permissions of your Library directories?

ls -ld $HOME/Library
ls -ld $HOME/Library/Preferences

[tofteit]

[stisti]

I managed to reproduce this bug on my own system. Looking into it.

[tofteit]

Sound good :-)

[stisti]

This is really strange. Somehow the property list management in AppleScript in 10.10 seems to work differently than in earlier OS X versions. I still have not figured it out but you can work around it by first creating an empty Jenkins.app preferences file and then launching Jenkins.app. You can e.g. execute the following command in Terminal:

cat >$HOME/Library/Preferences/org.jenkins-ci.jenkins.plist <<EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>java_command_args</key>
    <string></string>
    <key>jenkins_command_args</key>
    <string></string>
</dict>
</plist>
EOF

I will try to come up with a real solution but this should get you going.

[tofteit]

That works! Thanks..