Hiya,
I restarted a tentacle because we were seeing problems with a deploy that would not finish (despite the “Done.” message being printed in the output). I Cancelled the deployment and then restarted the tentacle.
However, after restart, I am continually seeing the following Tentacle exception while trying to deploy. I’ve run a “Check Health” and all appears well. We are using server version 1.6.1.1718
2013-07-01 11:46:40 INFO Tentacle error message: System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: input
at System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Matches(String input)
at Octopus.Tentacle.Deployment.Conventions.VariableEvaluator.ParseDependencies(List`1 nodes, Configuration config) in c:\BuildAgent\work\e6923628be6eaf72\source\Octopus.Tentacle\Deployment\Conventions\VariableEvaluator.cs:line 53
at Octopus.Tentacle.Deployment.Conventions.VariableEvaluator.Evaluate(VariableDictionary variables) in c:\BuildAgent\work\e6923628be6eaf72\source\Octopus.Tentacle\Deployment\Conventions\VariableEvaluator.cs:line 21
at Octopus.Tentacle.Deployment.DeploymentController.Execute(PackageMetadata package, VariableDictionary variables, IActivityLog log) in c:\BuildAgent\work\e6923628be6eaf72\source\Octopus.Tentacle\Deployment\DeploymentController.cs:line 51
at System.Dynamic.UpdateDelegates.UpdateAndExecuteVoid3[T0,T1,T2](CallSite site, T0 arg0, T1 arg1, T2 arg2)
at Octopus.Tentacle.Services.Jobs.JobQueue.RunDeploymentsOnBackgroundThread(Object ignored) in c:\BuildAgent\work\e6923628be6eaf72\source\Octopus.Tentacle\Services\Jobs\JobQueue.cs:line 81
2013-07-01 11:46:40 INFO Tentacle output follows:
2013-07-01 11:46:37 DEBUG Begin deployment of package: Edts.Service.Host.SystemTests.0.0.1536.55512
2013-07-01 11:46:37 DEBUG Tentacle Agent information is below:
2013-07-01 11:46:37 DEBUG - Machine name: DEVTEST-DOI0PEP
2013-07-01 11:46:37 DEBUG - Is 64-bit: True
2013-07-01 11:46:37 DEBUG - Service user name: SYSTEM
2013-07-01 11:46:37 DEBUG - CLR version: 4.0.30319.296
2013-07-01 11:46:37 DEBUG - Current directory: C:\Windows\system32
2013-07-01 11:46:37 DEBUG - OS version: Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
2013-07-01 11:46:37 DEBUG - Tentacle version: 1.2.2.1455