Questions tagged [azure-devops-self-hosted-agent]
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VSTS Self-hosted Build Agent Xamarin build error
Trying to get our CI to build our Xamarin.Android apps, I have made a Task for this, and it builds fine the first 2 or 3 times but after that, it constantly throws errors like the one…

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Self-Hosted Devops agent - Config launching error
I'm trying deploy self-hosted agent on my mac os machine. I downloaded agent archive and unpacked it. All attempts to run config.sh failed with an error:
config.sh: line 85: ./bin/Agent.Listener: No such file or directory
Have no idea where I did…

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How to control work folder for Azure DevOps pipeline?
Normally, if you are using a self-hosted Azure agent, it automatically selects target folders for you (I assume based on pipeline name), underneath the work folder... so for example:
/home/xxxxx/azure/_work/2/t/
Is there a way that I can control…

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Azure Devops Self-hosted Agent parallel jobs
We have deployed Azure devops Self-hosted Agent in our own agentpool.
We have also purchased 4 parallel job per agent , but when our build runs, it runs only one job at a time and other pipeline/release jobs have to wait.
How can we run 4 parallel…

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Maven Errror Could not transfer artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-source-plugin:pom:3.0.1 from/to central
I am trying to compile my code using maven, getting below error,
Environment
i am using azure devops server and using build pipeline
Maven Errror Could not transfer artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-source-plugin:pom:3.0.1 from/to…

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Azure DevOps Pipeline for Java Project with self hosted agent
We are having a set of Java Projects which were developed using different JDK versions, different versions of Gradle and Maven were used in projects.
We are supposed to create a Azure DevOps Pipeline using Self Hosted Agent and as of now build agent…

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Azure DevOps YAML build fail when running container jobs on self hosted agent
I'm trying to run a container job on my self hosted agent to read a container image from my ACR.
When you use a Microsoft hosted agent this code works:
pool:
vmImage: 'ubuntu-18.04'
container:
image: myprivate.azurecr.io/windowsservercore:1803
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Azure mac hosted agent : Acquiring an agent from the cloud: Request queue position information is unavailable
i just notices that even though i have a pool of 10 hosted agent in azure which are free and idle
I'm waiting a long time to execute the build job and I see this msg for a long period of time:
Acquiring an agent from the cloud:
Request queue…

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Azure DevOps hosted-agent failed to pull windows:2004
When using Windows-2019 hosted agent (Agent installed with 1809 windows version -Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Datacenter) as Agent Specification, We can't pull mcr.microsoft.com/windows:2004 docker image.
Exception:
I'm familiar with this solution…

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Avoid git clean with Azure Devops self-hosted Build Agent
I have a YAML build script in an Azure hosted git repository which gets triggered across 7 build agents running on a local VM. Every time this runs, the build performs a git clean which takes a significant amount of time due to a large node_modules…

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DevOps pipeline on self-hosted MacOS agent fails on NuGet package restore but works on Azure Pipeline
I faced a problem with running a DevOps pipeline on self-hosted MacOS (Catalina) build agent and it fails on the step NuGet Package Restore. The same step is successful when run on Azure Pipeline agent.
The error is:
Unable to locate executable…

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Can YAML Pipeline detect cloud vs Self-Hosted build?
Is it possible to determine within a single YAML Pipeline whether the agent is running self-hosted or in a cloud build? If so, how would one go about determining that?
I need my pipeline to work in both locations but certain steps must only occur…

Joe
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Azure Devops pipelines - submodules not get updated by default
In Azure devops pipelines submodules are not getting updated by default.
To reproduce the problem.
Source Code
https://github.com/forvaidya/submodule.git
https://github.com/forvaidya/supermodule.git
Updates doesn't happen unless I have following…

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Self hosted azure agent - how to configure pipelines to share the same build folder
We have a self-hosted build agent on an on-prem server.
We typically have a large codebase, and in the past followed this mechanism with TFS2013 build agents:
Daily check-ins were built to c:\work\tfs\ (taking about 5 minutes)
Each night a batch…

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Azure Agent config setup error WinHttp Error: ERROR_WINHTTP_TIMEOUT
Getting "WinHttp Error: ERROR_WINHTTP_TIMEOUT" error when config.cmd is run in corporate network over VPN. This worked fine last week, but this week it stopped working.
Error log is here
2020-04-22 22:33:37Z ERR VisualStudioServices] Attempt 4 of…

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