Bamboo remote agent : AIX

[Andrei [errno]]

does anyone run Bamboo remote agents in AIX? do you have any pointers on setting it up? mostly I am wondering if IBM JDK 1.6 might give us problems or is it something else.

thanks

[Bob Swift (personal) · Accepted solution]

I successfully ran Bamboo agent on IBM i (on Power) with IBM JDK in PASE/AIX environment a couple of years ago. No significant issues. Don't have any projects that need that now, so it is not active anymore.

[Rafal Habrat]

Bob,

We are running into the following exception when attempting to start the agent with IBM's JDK on AIX. Do you recall what version of Bamboo you were on when you had the agent running on AIX?

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'processService' defined in class path resource [applicationContextCommon.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: java/util/concurrent/TimeUnit.HOURS
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: java/util/concurrent/TimeUnit.HOURS
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.process.ProcessServiceImpl.<clinit>(ProcessServiceImpl.java:37)
	at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initializeImpl(Native Method)
	at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:196)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:67)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:522)

[Przemek Bruski]

This looks like a problem with Java 1.5 - make sure you are indeed running it on 1.6 .

[Rafal Habrat]

Thanks Przemek - we'll look into that

[Bob Swift (personal)]

It was bamboo 2.1.1 using JAVA 1.5. I think we continued to run it up to bamboo 2.5.

[Rafal Habrat]

Thanks Guys for all your input - we have now confirmed that it was a JDK version problem. We are now successfully runing the agent on AIX using IBM's JDK 6...

[James Dumay]

Officially AIX and the IBM JDK is unsupported. We haven't tested on this combination before so it may or may not work - best give it a go and report back here :)

[vishwas gautam]

Hi @James Dumay  I was able to install the remote agent. But it stops after each build and I am unable to restart using bamboo-agent.sh script. I am using version 5.13.1. Please help me .
Thanks