Bamboo SCP Task not working ver 6.7.1
Asked by Yusuf Kolabhai:

scp task not working. tried on 6.4.1 and upgraded this weekend to 6.7.1 and still not working.

See logs

Build Deployment of 'release-2' on 'INT' started building on agent Default Agent  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18   
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 Build working directory is /opt/bamboo/bamboo-home/xml-data/build-dir/4489217-4554754  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 Executing build Deployment of 'release-2' on 'INT'  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 Starting task 'Clean working directory task' of type 'com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.bamboo-artifact-downloader-plugin:cleanWorkingDirectoryTask'  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 Cleaning working directory '/opt/bamboo/bamboo-home/xml-data/build-dir/4489217-4554754'  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 Finished task 'Clean working directory task' with result: Success  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 Starting task 'Download release contents' of type 'com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.bamboo-artifact-downloader-plugin:artifactdownloadertask'  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 Finished task 'Download release contents' with result: Success  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 Starting task 'Download Artifact to working directory' of type 'com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.bamboo-scp-plugin:scptask'  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 Error occurred while running Task 'Download Artifact to working directory(3)' of type com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.bamboo-scp-plugin:scptask.  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 java.lang.NullPointerException  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at java.io.File.\<init\>(File.java:360)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.scp.ScpTask.artifactToScpFromTransferTask(ScpTask.java:198)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.scp.ScpTask.getPathSpecToCopy(ScpTask.java:137)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.scp.ScpTask.run(ScpTask.java:112)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.scp.ScpTask.execute(ScpTask.java:107)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl.lambda$executeTasks$1(TaskExecutorImpl.java:315)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl.executeTaskWithPrePostActions(TaskExecutorImpl.java:252)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl.executeTasks(TaskExecutorImpl.java:315)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl.execute(TaskExecutorImpl.java:112)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.build.pipeline.tasks.ExecuteBuildTask.call(ExecuteBuildTask.java:73)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.DefaultBuildAgent.executeBuildPhase(DefaultBuildAgent.java:203)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.DefaultBuildAgent.build(DefaultBuildAgent.java:175)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.BuildAgentControllerImpl.lambda$waitAndPerformBuild$0(BuildAgentControllerImpl.java:129)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.variable.CustomVariableContextImpl.withVariableSubstitutor(CustomVariableContextImpl.java:185)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.BuildAgentControllerImpl.waitAndPerformBuild(BuildAgentControllerImpl.java:123)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.DefaultBuildAgent$1.run(DefaultBuildAgent.java:126)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.utils.BambooRunnables$1.run(BambooRunnables.java:48)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper.runWith(ImpersonationHelper.java:26)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper.runWithSystemAuthority(ImpersonationHelper.java:17)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper$1.run(ImpersonationHelper.java:41)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 Finalising the build...  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 Stopping timer.  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 Build 4489217-4554754-5668874 completed.  
21-Jan-2019 10:48:18 Finished processing deployment result Deployment of 'release-2' on 'INT'


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: Hi!

Looks like the problem related the shared artifact.

Have you check it?

And are you planning update Bamboo to 6.8.0 release? :)

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov