Bamboo - MSBUILD : error MSB1022: Response file does not exist.

[Jean Perriault]

Since two days we have this message when trying to build our windows binaries via msbuild task
(Visual Studio express 2012 on Windows 7 agents => MSBuild v4.0 32 bits).
In plan metadada, there is a key called "build.commandline.com.atlassian.bamboo.plugin.dotnet:msbuild.4",
with C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Temp\[file_name].rsp, but there is nothing available at this location. Can I remove/clean something? Restarting bamboo agent service didn't help.

[Niklas Rehfeld]

There is a knowledge base article on this problem: 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamkb/msbuild-error-msb1022-response-file-does-not-exist-779294016.html

Basically this can happen when the user that bamboo-agent is running as can't write to the temporary directory.  

You can set the temp directory with the startup option: 

-Djava.io.tmpdir=C:\tempDir

[Derek Smith]

Was there any resolution to this? I am having the same problem!

[Alexey Chystoprudov]

please contact our support at support.atlassian.com

[Jean Perriault]

No this is a server version. I was thinking about modifying the tmp folder location in wrapper.conf, as suggested here (https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-11561?focusedCommentId=703644&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-703644) But this issue occured on two different agents at the same time, so there is something else, this is not a strange/random windows behavior as suggested here (http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/prop-java-tmpdir-x.html)

[Alexey Chystoprudov]

Do you use Cloud instance?