bin//sonar-scanner: 103: exec: : Permission denied

Question

While running a test build using Gitlab-CI + Sonarqube, it fails to execute the command bin/sonar-scanner. I get the error 103: exec:: Permission denied.

It executes normally on the shell but not via the build automation using the CI.

Answer 1

Thanks to a similar situation and response at: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37460784/2546381

It turned out to be that, the configured docker image, which Gitlab-runner is spinning up, has no Java installed in it and this script requires Java. It is also evident if we look into the sonar-scanner executable (which is a plain text shell script file).