Issue

• Pipeline projects fail to load shared libraries from Rational Team Concert source control

Environment

• CloudBees CI (CloudBees Core)
• CloudBees CI (CloudBees Core) on modern cloud platforms - Managed controller
• CloudBees CI (CloudBees Core) on traditional platforms - Client controller
• CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise - Managed controller
• CloudBees Jenkins Platform - Client controller
• CloudBees Jenkins Distribution
• Rational Team Concert plugin

Description

Pipeline projects fail to load shared libraries managed within Rational Team Concert source control. This issue may occur when migrating form Jenkins 2.7.x to CloudBees Core on traditional platforms Client controller 2.164.x.

Loading library Jenkins_Shared_Library@1.0
RTC : checkout...
FATAL: RTC : checkout failure: null
java.lang.NullPointerException

The error message continues as follows

FATAL: RTC : checkout failure: RTC : checkout failure: null
hudson.AbortException: RTC : checkout failure: null
	at com.ibm.team.build.internal.hjplugin.RTCAcceptTask.invoke(RTCAcceptTask.java:246)
	at com.ibm.team.build.internal.hjplugin.RTCAcceptTask.invoke(RTCAcceptTask.java:34)
	at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:1075)

Finally, you can see the error similar to the one below

ERROR: RTC : checkout failure: RTC : checkout failure: null
ERROR: Maximum checkout retry attempts reached, aborting
org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed:
WorkflowScript: Loading libraries failed

Resolution

The issue can be resolved by recreating the global library settings under Manage Jenkins > Configure System Rational Team Concert (RTC) section. In addition, navigate to Jenkins Global Tool configure page, i.e. Jenkins > Manage Jenkins > Global Tool Configuration and validate RTC Build toolkit settings. If the issue is not resolved, contact CloudBees representative support@cloudbees.com or open a support request.