I just encountered a rather annoying problem when running
Hudson as a service on
Ubuntu. I was getting the following exception whenever the build checked code out of
GitHub:
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Could not apply tag hudson-Selenium_RC_Plugin-23
at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.tag(GitAPI.java:265)
It turns out Git needs a username to be set and the hudson user that the Debian package creates when Hudson is installed doesn't have one. Easily fixed by using
sudo nano /etc/passwd to add
Hudson,,, into the hudson user's entry (if you look at your own entry you should see where it needs to go).
