Upgrade Windows Agent
Asked by Ryan_Mensching:

I am trying to upgrade an existing Windows Agent that is working with Server 5.7 and moving to Server 5.15.5. The agent will try to start and then error with the horrible error below. I have tried to download the current 6.1 agent version but the .bat file is erroring on a missing home directory that doesnt currently exist. Not sure where to go from here, fix the old agent or try setting up new. The old agent is using the ANT setup script.

Current Agent error:

\[java\] Exception in thread "main" com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: invalid number or unquoted string near ?_???U??????H? ?n?\\?? \\G?? ????6?3?P  
\[java\] at com.google.gson.Streams.parse(Streams.java:51)  
\[java\] at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:514)  
\[java\] at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:484)  
\[java\] at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:434)  
\[java\] at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:406)  
\[java\] at com.atlassian.aws.ec2.EC2Utils.getUserData(EC2Utils.java:125)  
\[java\] at com.atlassian.bamboo.agent.elastic.installer.ElasticAgentInstaller.\<init\>(ElasticAgentInstaller.java:41)  
\[java\] at com.atlassian.bamboo.agent.elastic.installer.ElasticAgentInstaller.main(ElasticAgentInstaller.java:61)  
\[java\] Caused by: com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: invalid number or unquoted string near ?_???U??????H? ?n?\\?? \\G?? ????6?3?P  
\[java\] at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.syntaxError(JsonReader.java:1110)  
\[java\] at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.decodeLiteral(JsonReader.java:1100)  
\[java\] at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.peek(JsonReader.java:343)  
\[java\] at com.google.gson.Streams.parse(Streams.java:38)  
\[java\] ... 7 more  
BUILD FAILED  
C:\\bamboo-agent\\build.xml:38: Java returned: 1  
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Java.execute(Java.java:111)  
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)  
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)  
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)  
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)  
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)  
at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)  
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)  
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:390)  
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:411)  
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399)  
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368)  
at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)  
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251)  
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:809)  
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217)  
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280)  
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109)

New Agent error:

JAVA_HOME: C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_45  
PATH: C:\\ProgramData\\Oracle\\Java\\javapath;C:\\Windows\\system32;C:\\Windows;C:\\Windows\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\;C:\\Program Files\\SlikSvn\\bin;C:\\Python27\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Git\\cmd;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Git\\bin;C:\\Python27\\Scripts;C:\\apache-ant-1.8.2\\bin;C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_45\\bin;C:\\putty;C:\\opt\\nant-0.92\\bin;C:\\opt\\nantcontrib-0.92\\bin;c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SQL Server\\100\\Tools\\Binn\\;c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL Server\\100\\Tools\\Binn\\;c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL Server\\100\\DTS\\Binn\\;C:\\nantcontrib-0.92;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\NSIS  
HOME: \\Users\\bamboo  
The system cannot find the path specified.  
The system cannot find the path specified


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: Hi!

I hope was fixed by

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo/bamboo-upgrade-guide-720411366.html>

BTW, are you on the latest version 6.8.0 or planning?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo/bamboo-releases-671089224.html>

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov