Bamboo and Stash Application Link succeeds, doesn't work

[Justin Alan Ryan]

Hi,

I've recently started at a company who uses Bamboo and is in the process of migrating from Subversion to Git+Stash.

I have admin on both Bamboo and Stash, and have successfully created a reciprocal application link between the two multiple times, just to ensure I did nothing wrong.  It may be worth noting that the initial reciprocal link from Stash to Bamboo did not work because I had admin only in Bamboo, not in Stash - which has since been rectified.

Now, when I try to add a new repository to a build plan in Bamboo, and select "Stash" as the type, I get a message in a little box:

   Stash - approval required

   Bamboo requires your approval before it can display repositories and branches, and automatically set up authentication.

  (Login & Approve) <- link

If I hit, "Login & Approve", it simply reloads the page.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

[CruzinUSA · Accepted solution]

Do you know if the OAuth tokens are created? Does it just keep asking you to create an OAuth token? Are you using straight HTTP or is there HTTPS / Proxy involved? I'd take a look at the logs and see if you run into any of the issues mentioned in our Applink Troubleshooting Guide

[Justin Alan Ryan]

Thanks for pointing at the Applink troubleshooting guide! Turns out we had a clock mismatch between our Bamboo and Stash machines, and the oauth dialog was silently failing. Only when I opened it in a new tab did I see: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/KB/OAuth+error+oauth_problem%3Dtimestamp_refused

[geoffreychan]

@Justin Alan Ryan That was our issues as well.

[Anurag Prakash]

That should be fine as first time it ask for authenticate for linked application. So that Bamboo or Stash will know that you are a known user for both the application.

Once authenticated, it will save the reference in stash. You can check in Stash,

Profile > Manage Account> Authorized Application -> you will see Bamboo.

If you revoke access from their, it will ask again for approval as it did now.

[Justin Alan Ryan]

Thanks, I re-linked them several times, but the oauth dialog was failing silently, as you'll see in my other response. Turns out our machines' clocks were out of sync.