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IIS Deploy on premises fails with ERROR_FILE_IN_USE

See original GitHub issue

Required Information

Question, Bug, or Feature?
Type: Bug

Enter Task Name: IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup

Environment

Server - Azure Pipelines
Agent - Hosted

Issue Description

I’m using the IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup@0 task to deploy a .NET Core 3.1 app to IIS on premises. The task fails sometimes with a ERROR_FILE_IN_USE code. I have set the TakeAppOfflineFlag to true but nothing changed.

Task logs

tasklogs.zip

Troubleshooting

Error logs

Info: Updating file (AGIL\Crpdl.Agil.Web.dll).
##[debug]Exit code 4294967295 received from tool 'C:\azagent\A1\_work\_tasks\IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup_1b467810-6725-4b6d-accd-886174c09bba\0.156.13\node_modules\webdeployment-common-v2\MSDeploy3.6\msdeploy.exe'
##[debug]Exit code 4294967295 received from tool 'C:\azagent\A1\_work\_tasks\IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup_1b467810-6725-4b6d-accd-886174c09bba\0.156.13\node_modules\webdeployment-common-v2\MSDeploy3.6\msdeploy.exe'
##[debug]STDIO streams have closed for tool 'C:\azagent\A1\_work\_tasks\IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup_1b467810-6725-4b6d-accd-886174c09bba\0.156.13\node_modules\webdeployment-common-v2\MSDeploy3.6\msdeploy.exe'
##[debug]STDIO streams have closed for tool 'C:\azagent\A1\_work\_tasks\IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup_1b467810-6725-4b6d-accd-886174c09bba\0.156.13\node_modules\webdeployment-common-v2\MSDeploy3.6\msdeploy.exe'
##[error]Failed to deploy web package to IIS website.
##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.issue type=error;]Failed to deploy web package to IIS website.
##[debug]{}
##[debug]System.DefaultWorkingDirectory=C:\azagent\A1\_work\1\s
##[warning]Can\'t find loc string for key: Trytodeploywebappagainwithrenamefileoptionselected
##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.issue type=warning;]Can\'t find loc string for key: Trytodeploywebappagainwithrenamefileoptionselected
##[warning]Trytodeploywebappagainwithrenamefileoptionselected
##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.issue type=warning;]Trytodeploywebappagainwithrenamefileoptionselected
##[error]Error Code: ERROR_FILE_IN_USE
More Information: Web Deploy cannot modify the file 'Crpdl.Agil.Web.dll' on the destination because it is locked by an external process.  In order to allow the publish operation to succeed, you may need to either restart your application to release the lock, or use the AppOffline rule handler for .Net applications on your next publish attempt.  Learn more at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_FILE_IN_USE.
Error count: 1.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Reactions:5
Comments:35 (8 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

7reactions

guinatalcommented, Feb 24, 2021

Same problem here. .NET 5 web api running on premise. It looks like this is not something new by researching it… still didn’t find a solution though.

6reactions

mpoironcommented, Nov 26, 2020

Can we have an update on this issue ? I am still having this issue and having to kill the app pool each time is quite annoying.

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