Here is output from console (partial, for readability):
sonar-scanner \
…
-Dsonar.exclusions=./var
INFO: SonarQube Scanner 4.2.0.1873
INFO: Java 11.0.3 AdoptOpenJDK (64-bit)
INFO: Linux 5.4.7-1-default amd64
…
INFO: Indexing files...
INFO: Project configuration:
INFO: Excluded sources: ./var
INFO: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
INFO: EXECUTION FAILURE
INFO: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
INFO: Total time: 6.269s
INFO: Final Memory: 7M/30M
INFO: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: Error during SonarQube Scanner execution
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to index files
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.filesystem.ProjectFileIndexer.indexFiles(ProjectFileIndexer.java:203)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.filesystem.ProjectFileIndexer.index(ProjectFileIndexer.java:159)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.filesystem.ProjectFileIndexer.indexModulesRecursively(ProjectFileIndexer.java:138)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.filesystem.ProjectFileIndexer.index(ProjectFileIndexer.java:105)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.doAfterStart(ProjectScanContainer.java:341)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:136)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:122)
at org.sonar.scanner.bootstrap.GlobalContainer.doAfterStart(GlobalContainer.java:141)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:136)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:122)
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.doExecute(Batch.java:72)
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.execute(Batch.java:66)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.internal.batch.BatchIsolatedLauncher.execute(BatchIsolatedLauncher.java:46)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.internal.IsolatedLauncherProxy.invoke(IsolatedLauncherProxy.java:60)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy0.execute(Unknown Source)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.EmbeddedScanner.doExecute(EmbeddedScanner.java:189)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.EmbeddedScanner.execute(EmbeddedScanner.java:138)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.cli.Main.execute(Main.java:112)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.cli.Main.execute(Main.java:75)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.cli.Main.main(Main.java:61)
Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: <here-was-full-project-root-path>/var/pgdata
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(Unknown Source)
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(Unknown Source)
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(Unknown Source)
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newDirectoryStream(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.newDirectoryStream(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.nio.file.FileTreeWalker.visit(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.nio.file.FileTreeWalker.next(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.walkFileTree(Unknown Source)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.filesystem.ProjectFileIndexer.indexDirectory(ProjectFileIndexer.java:210)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.filesystem.ProjectFileIndexer.indexFiles(ProjectFileIndexer.java:197)
... 23 more
ERROR:
ERROR: Re-run SonarQube Scanner using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
Current user has no permissions for read ./var/pgdata, it’s ok and I’ve expected that scanner just skip those directories. Anyways there is nothing for analysis inside it. But scanner keep failing even when I’m trying to explicitly ignore this unreadable dir (also, this dir in project’s .gitignore).
Also I’ve tried -Dsonar.exclusions=./var/pgdata, -Dsonar.exclusions=./var/* and -Dsonar.exclusions=./var/** but no luck and error was the same.
With -X option it’s just many DEBUG messages before like:
17:53:40.418 DEBUG: File '<here-was-full-project-root-path>/var/cache/<path-to-file>' is excluded by the scm ignore settings.
It looks strange for me: why it iterates over files inside ignored ./var folder? What does “ignore” means for scanner?
Finally I’ve temporarily moved pgdata dir out and scan was executed successfully, so I suppose it’s a bug.