I've been having an issue with Hudson on windows.
Whenever I update Hudson or a plugin I get the option to restart when no jobs are running.
If I click this button Hudson hangs and doesn't restart. I've tried restarting the Hudson service but this doesn't help, so end up having to reboot the box to bring Hudson back online.
I've just updated to the most recent version, but didn't click the restart button and it's now vanished.
Is there a correct way to restart Hudson on windows?
Cheers
Tom
If the Slave node has the slave.jar used as a windows service, that service is defined as "Automatic".
It means it will try to contact the master periodically if the connection has been severed.
You shouldn't click on anything on the server side (in the Node definition) to restart said Node: it should be back online automatically.
I have a this problem once in a while too. For some reason the Hudson server does not shut down completely and the server that starts up, can not use the port. To fix that problem, I run `netstat -n -o'. This way I can find out the process ID that holds the port and kill that app through taskmanager. Now I can restart the service and Hudson comes up fine.
For the last few weeks I had a similar problem. The description says, that it restarts the app, when no processes are running. I missed out on one job that was hold in the build queue and because of a faulty configuration never actually build, therefore preventing Hudson from restarting.
After all of your jobs are finished and your server does not restart. Just visit the restart page again http://server:port/restart and try to restart again. If that doesn't work stop the service and start it again.