"No such file or directory" when running simple command on linux bamboo agent. UPDATE - new question Edited

[brian_gillespie]

I'll probably forget to include some details, so bear with me.

To demonstrate my problem I have created a simple plan. It's the sole purpose to verify a file exists by doing an "ls -ls <filename>". 

It fails. What am I doing wrong? I suspect ist has something to do with permissions on the build agent VM. 

On the build agent machine, a linux VM, I run the command

> /usr/bin/ls -ls /home/bgillespie/ivy

total 8

0 drwxr-xr-x. 2 bamboo     bamboo      215 Feb 19 16:10 cache

4 -rwxrwxrwx. 1 bgillespie bgillespie 2602 Feb 19 15:43 ivyconf.xml

4 -rwxrwxrwx. 1 bgillespie bgillespie  218 Feb 18 13:40 ivy.properties

Output from the build log when I run the plan in bamboo:

...

simple	19-Feb-2020 17:13:20	Starting task 'see if ivyconf.xml found' of type 'com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.scripttask:task.builder.command'
command	19-Feb-2020 17:13:20	Beginning to execute external process for build 'TEST - BRIAN_TEST - BUILD #1 (TEST-BRIANTEST-JOB1-1)'\n ... running command line: \n/usr/bin/ls -ls /users/bgillespie/ivy\n ... in: /home/bamboo/agent-2-home/xml-data/build-dir/TEST-BRIANTEST-JOB1
...

error	19-Feb-2020 17:13:20	/usr/bin/ls: cannot access /users/bgillespie/ivy: No such file or directory
simple	19-Feb-2020 17:13:20	Failing task since return code of [/usr/bin/ls -ls /users/bgillespie/ivy] was 2 while expected 0
simple	19-Feb-2020 17:13:20	Finished task 'see if ivyconf.xml found' with result: Failed

The directory itself is wide open permission wise

ls -lsd /home/bgillespie /home/bgillespie/ivy

0 drwxrwxrwx. 11 bgillespie bgillespie 280 Feb 19 15:55 /home/bgillespie/

0 drwxrwxrwx. 3 bgillespie bgillespie 77 Feb 19 16:10 /home/bgillespie/ivy

thanks,

[brian_gillespie · Accepted solution]

As a test I got a new VM spun up with same OS, installed the needed software including a new bamboo client and now my problem is gone. Apparently some kind of a problem with the build agent I was using.