Headless continuous integration with Jenkins

Question

I’m trying to set up Jenkins on a RackSpace ArchLinux Cloud Server, but I’ve been unable to.

Whenever I try to access Jenkins site, I get this error:

Answer 1

Installing openjdk-7-jre-headless and ttf-dejavu made the difference for me on Ubuntu 12.04 LTC (Precise). The fonts are referenced by the font setup of the Java installation and the OpenJDK 7 package depends on libfontconfig1 and will thus actually use the fonts.

I'm using Jenkins from http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/debian/ and by default you will get openjdk-6-jre-headless since the jenkins package depends on default-jre-headless, which in turn pulls in openjdk-6-jre-headless.

You can swap the packages using

$ aptitude install openjdk-7-jre-headless
$ aptitude remove default-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-headless