SonarQube/Azure DevOps code analysis failure - .scannerwork/report-task.txt not found

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We run code-quality scans that are triggered by pipelines in Azure DevOps (defined in YAML):

    # retrieve and build code, run unit tests etc.
    - task: SonarQubePrepare@4
      displayName: 'Prepare SonarQube Scan'
      inputs:
        SonarQube: 'SonarQube DevOps Connection'
        scannerMode: 'CLI'
        configMode: 'file'
    - task: SonarQubeAnalyze@4
      displayName: 'Run SonarQube Scan'
    - task: SonarQubePublish@4
      displayName: 'Publish SonarQube Scan Report'
      inputs:
        pollingTimeoutSec: '300'

About a week ago, the main analysis task (‘Run SonarQube Scan’) began failing for all pipelines with the following error:

...
##[error]ERROR: Error during SonarQube Scanner execution
ERROR: Error during SonarQube Scanner execution
##[error]java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to load properties from file /home/vsts/work/1/s/.scannerwork/report-task.txt
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to load properties from file /home/vsts/work/1/s/.scannerwork/report-task.txt
...
##[error]Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/vsts/work/1/s/.scannerwork/report-task.txt (No such file or directory)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/vsts/work/1/s/.scannerwork/report-task.txt (No such file or directory)
...

We have made no changes to our pipelines, so I am mystified as to what has caused this change.

We are using SonarQube Enterprise EditionVersion 7.9.1 (build 27448) (on-premise installation) and version 4.9.0 of the SonarQube extension for Azure DevOps (published by SonarSource). Our build agents in Azure use Ubuntu 16.04 images.

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Hello,

Can you share the logs (begin + run analysis steps) with increased logging verbosity (just add /d:sonar.verbose=true to the begin step) relating to the this failing pipeline?

Greetings,
Kris

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Thanks Kris. I have since run the pipeline with a general System.Debug=true variable set and generated the following logs:

2020-03-25T14:25:00.3679664Z 14:25:00.367 INFO: ANALYSIS SUCCESSFUL, you can browse https://domain/dashboard?id=project
...
2020-03-25T14:25:00.3694399Z 14:25:00.369 DEBUG: Report metadata written to /home/vsts/work/_temp/sonar/20200325.2/eec0f38a-913b-3db3-e1b2-71091ea5f860/report-task.txt
...
2020-03-25T14:25:00.5568445Z ##[error]java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to load properties from file /home/vsts/work/1/s/.scannerwork/report-task.txt
...
2020-03-25T14:25:00.5622558Z ##[error]Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/vsts/work/1/s/.scannerwork/report-task.txt (No such file or directory)

So it appears that the report metadata are being written to /home/vsts/work/_temp/sonar/20200325.2/eec0f38a-913b-3db3-e1b2-71091ea5f860/report-task.txt but SonarQube subsequently looks for them in /home/vsts/work/1/s/.scannerwork/report-task.txt . It looks like there is a mv operation missing somewhere …

I’ll run the pipeline again now with sonar.verbose=true and let you know what I find.

EDIT: I ran it with Sonar debugging enabled - the information was the same as with Azure debugging enabled. Let me know if there is anything specific you were expecting to find in the logs and I can post it here (I saved them - they are 48MB each, so I can’t post the whole thing!).

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I worked it out in the end. Closer inspection of the Azure pipelines logs revealed these two entries that weren’t there before:

2020-03-26T15:26:44.0989881Z INFO: Executing post-job 'Forbidden Configuration Breaker'
2020-03-26T15:26:44.0990841Z INFO: Executing post-job 'Quality Gate Breaker'

Someone installed the Sonar Build-Breaker Plug-in a week ago without telling us, and none of us have correctly configured it in our pipelines yet. Setting it to skip the quality gate check ( sonar.buildbreaker.skip=true ) effectively by-passes it (although those two log entries still appear) and the pipelines run successfully once more.

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Hi Ed,

Thanks for sharing - glad you solved it.
Greetings,
Kris

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We had the same problem. Problem stopped happening after we upgrading Build Breaker in SonarQube to v 2.3.1 (build 347).

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Thanks Ian - that’s great news!

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