Visual Studio task fails when running Bamboo as a Windows service
Symptoms
All builds work fine when running Bamboo server from command line. However, some builds fail when Bamboo is started as a Windows Service. For example, a Visual Studio task shows this errors:
simple 24-Oct-2012 14:08:20 Starting task 'Buid using Visual Studio 2010' of type 'com.atlassian.bamboo.plugin.dotnet:devenv'
command 24-Oct-2012 14:08:20 Beginning to execute external process for build 'Plan Name - Default Job'\n ... running command line: \nC:\bamboo-home\DotNetSupport\devenvrunner.bat\n C:\bamboo-home\xml-data\build-dir\Proj1-Plan1-JOB1\n C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\n x86\n test.sln\n /build\n Release\n ... in: C:\bamboo-home\xml-data\build-dir\Proj1-Plan1-JOB1\n
error 24-Oct-2012 14:08:20 'findstr' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
error 24-Oct-2012 14:08:20 operable program or batch file.
error 24-Oct-2012 14:08:20 The process tried to write to a non
The error message might be different for other failing tasks.
Cause
This is generally caused by account permissions of the user who runs Bamboo service. By default Bamboo uses a SYSTEM user, and this might cause some issues.
Resolution
Make sure to use a local admin user to run Bamboo server as per this document.
Last modified on Nov 21, 2012
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