[JENKINS-50729] exception when cleaning workspace

Jenkins is not able to clean workspace before updating strace git checkout. It crashes with

```
Started by upstream project "[strace]" build number [98]
originally caused by:
Started by an SCM change
Building remotely on
[p8-ppc64le]
(Fedora F27 ppc64le) in workspace /home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le
Cloning the remote Git repository
Cloning repository
[https://github.com/strace/strace.git]
ERROR: Failed to clean the workspace
java.io.IOException: Unable to delete '/home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le'. Tried 3 times (of a maximum of 3) waiting 0.1 sec between attempts.
at hudson.Util.deleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:238)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$2.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:555)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:153)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:146)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:210)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:53)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:364)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unable to delete /home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le/tests/fsync-y.dir - files in dir: [/home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le/tests/fsync-y.dir/078 9
1
78 \'"<<0::0>>1~��]
at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteFile(Util.java:303)
at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteRecursive(Util.java:369)
at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:388)
at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteRecursive(Util.java:368)
at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:388)
at hudson.Util.deleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:233)
... 11 more
Caused by: java.nio.file.DirectoryNotEmptyException: /home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le/tests/fsync-y.dir
at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.implDelete(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:242)
at sun.nio.fs.AbstractFileSystemProvider.deleteIfExists(AbstractFileSystemProvider.java:108)
at java.nio.file.Files.deleteIfExists(Files.java:1165)
at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteFile(Util.java:297)
... 16 more
ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin'
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Failed to delete workspace
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$2.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:558)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:153)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:146)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:210)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:53)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:364)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Suppressed: hudson.remoting.Channel$CallSiteStackTrace: Remote call to p8-ppc64le
at hudson.remoting.Channel.attachCallSiteStackTrace(Channel.java:1737)
at hudson.remoting.UserResponse.retrieve(UserRequest.java:313)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:952)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler.execute(RemoteGitImpl.java:146)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor821.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler.invoke(RemoteGitImpl.java:132)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy66.execute(Unknown Source)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.retrieveChanges(GitSCM.java:1120)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1160)
at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:504)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1203)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:574)
at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:499)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1727)
at hudson.matrix.MatrixRun.run(MatrixRun.java:146)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:429)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unable to delete '/home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le'. Tried 3 times (of a maximum of 3) waiting 0.1 sec between attempts.
at hudson.Util.deleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:238)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$2.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:555)
... 10 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unable to delete /home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le/tests/fsync-y.dir - files in dir: [/home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le/tests/fsync-y.dir/078 9
1
78 \'"<<0::0>>1~��]
at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteFile(Util.java:303)
at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteRecursive(Util.java:369)
at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:388)
at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteRecursive(Util.java:368)
at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:388)
at hudson.Util.deleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:233)
... 11 more
Caused by: java.nio.file.DirectoryNotEmptyException: /home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le/tests/fsync-y.dir
at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.implDelete(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:242)
at sun.nio.fs.AbstractFileSystemProvider.deleteIfExists(AbstractFileSystemProvider.java:108)
at java.nio.file.Files.deleteIfExists(Files.java:1165)
at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteFile(Util.java:297)
... 16 more
ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin'
Finished: FAILURE

```

 

Clearly there is a problem with non-ascii/non-utf8/crazy characters in the filenames created by strace test-suite

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Originally reported by sharkcz, imported from: exception when cleaning workspace

• status: Open
  
• priority: Major
  
• component(s): git-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 1
  
• watchers: 5
  
• imported: 2025-12-02
  

Raw content of original issue

Jenkins is not able to clean workspace before updating strace git checkout. It crashes with




Started by upstream project "[strace]" build number [98]

originally caused by:

Started by an SCM change

Building remotely on 

[p8-ppc64le]

(Fedora F27 ppc64le) in workspace /home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le

Cloning the remote Git repository

Cloning repository 

[https://github.com/strace/strace.git]

ERROR: Failed to clean the workspace

java.io.IOException: Unable to delete '/home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le'. Tried 3 times (of a maximum of 3) waiting 0.1 sec between attempts.

at hudson.Util.deleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:238)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$2.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:555)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:153)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:146)

at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:210)

at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:53)

at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:364)

at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unable to delete /home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le/tests/fsync-y.dir - files in dir: [/home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le/tests/fsync-y.dir/078 9

1

78 \'"<<0::0>>1~��]

at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteFile(Util.java:303)

at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteRecursive(Util.java:369)

at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:388)

at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteRecursive(Util.java:368)

at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:388)

at hudson.Util.deleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:233)

... 11 more

Caused by: java.nio.file.DirectoryNotEmptyException: /home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le/tests/fsync-y.dir

at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.implDelete(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:242)

at sun.nio.fs.AbstractFileSystemProvider.deleteIfExists(AbstractFileSystemProvider.java:108)

at java.nio.file.Files.deleteIfExists(Files.java:1165)

at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteFile(Util.java:297)

... 16 more

ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin'

hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Failed to delete workspace

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$2.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:558)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:153)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:146)

at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:210)

at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:53)

at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:364)

at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Suppressed: hudson.remoting.Channel$CallSiteStackTrace: Remote call to p8-ppc64le

at hudson.remoting.Channel.attachCallSiteStackTrace(Channel.java:1737)

at hudson.remoting.UserResponse.retrieve(UserRequest.java:313)

at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:952)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler.execute(RemoteGitImpl.java:146)

at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor821.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler.invoke(RemoteGitImpl.java:132)

at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy66.execute(Unknown Source)

at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.retrieveChanges(GitSCM.java:1120)

at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1160)

at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:504)

at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1203)

at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:574)

at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)

at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:499)

at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1727)

at hudson.matrix.MatrixRun.run(MatrixRun.java:146)

at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)

at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:429)

Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unable to delete '/home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le'. Tried 3 times (of a maximum of 3) waiting 0.1 sec between attempts.

at hudson.Util.deleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:238)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$2.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:555)

... 10 more

Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unable to delete /home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le/tests/fsync-y.dir - files in dir: [/home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le/tests/fsync-y.dir/078 9

1

78 \'"<<0::0>>1~��]

at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteFile(Util.java:303)

at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteRecursive(Util.java:369)

at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:388)

at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteRecursive(Util.java:368)

at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:388)

at hudson.Util.deleteContentsRecursive(Util.java:233)

... 11 more

Caused by: java.nio.file.DirectoryNotEmptyException: /home/jenkins/workspace/strace/label/ppc64le/tests/fsync-y.dir

at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.implDelete(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:242)

at sun.nio.fs.AbstractFileSystemProvider.deleteIfExists(AbstractFileSystemProvider.java:108)

at java.nio.file.Files.deleteIfExists(Files.java:1165)

at hudson.Util.tryOnceDeleteFile(Util.java:297)

... 16 more

ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin'

Finished: FAILURE





 


Clearly there is a problem with non-ascii/non-utf8/crazy characters in the filenames created by strace test-suite

environment

```
Jenkins ver. 2.107.1

Git plugin 3.8.0
```

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