Does TFS Repository plugin work with Elastic Agents?

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We've recently moved our Bamboo environment to AWS and are try to utilize the Elastic Agents feature. However, when we run a job that attempts to get source code from TFS we get the following error.  

 

Updating source code to revision: 52771
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	Error occurred while running Task 'Pull latest Mobile.Internal source code from MAIN(3)' of type com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs:task.vcs.checkout.
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	java.lang.RuntimeException: com.atlassian.bamboo.repository.RepositoryException: java.lang.NullPointerException: file must not be null
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.rerun(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:132)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.runTask(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:88)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.retry(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:191)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.retry(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:176)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs.task.VcsCheckoutTask.execute(VcsCheckoutTask.java:172)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl$3.call(TaskExecutorImpl.java:288)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl$3.call(TaskExecutorImpl.java:284)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl.executeTaskWithPrePostActions(TaskExecutorImpl.java:200)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl.executeTasks(TaskExecutorImpl.java:284)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl.executePreparationTasks(TaskExecutorImpl.java:81)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.build.pipeline.tasks.PrepareBuildTask.call(PrepareBuildTask.java:74)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.DefaultBuildAgent.build(DefaultBuildAgent.java:196)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.BuildAgentControllerImpl$1.call(BuildAgentControllerImpl.java:124)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.BuildAgentControllerImpl$1.call(BuildAgentControllerImpl.java:115)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.variable.CustomVariableContextImpl.withVariableSubstitutor(CustomVariableContextImpl.java:215)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.BuildAgentControllerImpl.waitAndPerformBuild(BuildAgentControllerImpl.java:114)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.DefaultBuildAgent$1.run(DefaultBuildAgent.java:118)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.utils.BambooRunnables$1.run(BambooRunnables.java:49)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper.runWith(ImpersonationHelper.java:31)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper.runWithSystemAuthority(ImpersonationHelper.java:20)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper$1.run(ImpersonationHelper.java:52)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	Caused by: com.atlassian.bamboo.repository.RepositoryException: java.lang.NullPointerException: file must not be null
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.stellarity.bamboo.repository.TfsRepository.retrieveSourceCode(TfsRepository.java:406)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs.task.VcsCheckoutTask.fillWorkingDirFromVcs(VcsCheckoutTask.java:259)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs.task.VcsCheckoutTask.access$100(VcsCheckoutTask.java:56)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs.task.VcsCheckoutTask$2.call(VcsCheckoutTask.java:177)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs.task.VcsCheckoutTask$2.call(VcsCheckoutTask.java:173)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.rerun(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:108)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	... 21 more
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: file must not be null
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.microsoft.tfs.util.Check.throwForNull(Check.java:135)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.microsoft.tfs.util.Check.notNull(Check.java:28)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.microsoft.tfs.core.clients.versioncontrol.workspacecache.internal.InternalCacheLoader.loadConfig(InternalCacheLoader.java:89)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.microsoft.tfs.core.clients.versioncontrol.Workstation.<init>(Workstation.java:150)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.microsoft.tfs.core.clients.versioncontrol.Workstation.getCurrent(Workstation.java:206)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.microsoft.tfs.core.clients.versioncontrol.VersionControlClient.<init>(VersionControlClient.java:450)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.microsoft.tfs.core.clients.versioncontrol.VersionControlClient.<init>(VersionControlClient.java:520)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.microsoft.tfs.core.config.client.DefaultClientFactory$7.newClient(DefaultClientFactory.java:238)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.microsoft.tfs.core.config.client.DefaultClientFactory.newClient(DefaultClientFactory.java:91)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.microsoft.tfs.core.TFSConnection.getClient(TFSConnection.java:1470)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.microsoft.tfs.core.TFSTeamProjectCollection.getVersionControlClient(TFSTeamProjectCollection.java:359)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.stellarity.bamboo.repository.TfsRepository.tryToRetrieveSourceCode(TfsRepository.java:791)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	at com.stellarity.bamboo.repository.TfsRepository.retrieveSourceCode(TfsRepository.java:384)
22-Sep-2015 09:20:20	... 26 more

Corey Hemminger

Working with my colleague we have figured out the issue. The plugin on the elastic agent runs under the bamboo user and the bamboo user doesn't have permission to c:\appdata folder for writing. As a work around to using the bamboo windows stock images atlassian provides we are having to create a new image and assign appropriate permissions to the folder to get this plugin to work. Ultimate fix would be to have the plugin use the windows user home directory appdata folder. In the case of the stock images it would be c:\users\Bamboo\appdata\....