Jenkins fails to restart - continuous-integration

Question

I was working on granting permission on Jenkins, I edited org.jenkins-ci.plist file in order to grant permission. Then restarted Jenkins by using java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s https://localhost:8080
The webpage gave me this error.
org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.ReactorException: java.lang.Error: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor.execute(Reactor.java:246)
at jenkins.InitReactorRunner.run(InitReactorRunner.java:43)
at jenkins.model.Jenkins.executeReactor(Jenkins.java:889)
at jenkins.model.Jenkins.<init>(Jenkins.java:794)
at hudson.model.Hudson.<init>(Hudson.java:81)
at hudson.model.Hudson.<init>(Hudson.java:77)
at hudson.WebAppMain$2.run(WebAppMain.java:217)
Caused by: java.lang.Error: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at hudson.init.InitializerFinder.invoke(InitializerFinder.java:124)
at hudson.init.InitializerFinder$TaskImpl.run(InitializerFinder.java:184)
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor.runTask(Reactor.java:259)
at jenkins.model.Jenkins$7.runTask(Jenkins.java:878)
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor$2.run(Reactor.java:187)
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor$Node.run(Reactor.java:94)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at hudson.init.InitializerFinder.invoke(InitializerFinder.java:120)
... 8 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jenkinsci.main.modules.sshd.SSHD.init(SSHD.java:144)
... 13 more
Since then I can't even use Jenkins-CLI nor jenkins itself.
What should I do to fix this?
And What should I do to avoid having the same errors when I need to change permission and restart jenkins in the future?
Thanks in advance
P.S. I'm using Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8, and using Jenkins 1.474

Answer 1

Probably reported bug in jenkins. check here, you can revert your changes and/or try to older version of jenkins.

Answer 2

I had a similar error on Debian...
For Jenkins adding & granting permissions to Jenkins users
When enabling security on jenkins make sure you check
- "enable sign up", or something like that
- the option to store users, for example "jenkins own database"
- make sure that anonymous user have minimum read permission
Grant Jenkins permission on PC
Must say that I don't know the directory structure on Mac, but if it's similar to Linux...
- you should have a file called jenkins, on Linux is in /etc/sysconfig or /etc/default and in this file change JENKINS_USER to whatever user you want.But you must be sure that that user exists on PC, on Linux the user must be in /etc/passwd
change permissions to Jenkins home,webroot and logs, on Linux with:
chown -R user:user /var/lib/jenkins
chown -R user:user /var/cache/jenkins
chown -R user:user /var/log/jenkins
PS: I gave the Linux examples because it's easily to explain, again I don't have experience on Mac.
But it should work...

Answer 3

Trying to delete the folder contents and then refresh your website with your local host address,then you will see some unlock tip with the password appear in the terminal. Then go ahead to reinstall your plugins . Hope will help you!