Oct 09, 2012 5:59:39 PM hudson.model.Executor run SEVERE: Executor threw an exception java.lang.NullPointerException at hudson.tasks.LogRotator.perform(LogRotator.java:119) at hudson.model.Job.logRotate(Job.java:338) at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1581) at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46) at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:236)
Oct 09, 2012 5:59:38 PM hudson.model.Run execute INFO: common-cndomain-3.13.5 #1235 main build action completed: FAILURE
Oct 09, 2012 5:58:43 PM hudson.model.Executor run SEVERE: Executor threw an exception java.lang.NullPointerException at hudson.tasks.LogRotator.perform(LogRotator.java:119) at hudson.model.Job.logRotate(Job.java:338) at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1581) at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46) at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:236)
Oct 09, 2012 5:58:43 PM hudson.model.Run execute INFO: fax-trunk6 #87 main build action completed: SUCCESS
Oct 09, 2012 5:58:14 PM hudson.model.Executor run SEVERE: Executor threw an exception java.lang.NullPointerException at hudson.tasks.LogRotator.perform(LogRotator.java:119) at hudson.model.Job.logRotate(Job.java:338) at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1581) at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46) at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:236)
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I see the same output on just about every single one of our builds. I also see other exceptions in the log, but I don't know if they're related:
Oct 09, 2012 5:50:55 PM hudson.triggers.SCMTrigger$Runner run INFO: SCM changes detected in nexus-3.13.3. Triggering #936
Oct 09, 2012 5:50:55 PM hudson.model.RunMap retrieve WARNING: could not load E:\Jenkins\jobs\nexus-3.13.3\builds\934 hudson.util.IOException2: Invalid directory name E:\Jenkins\jobs\nexus-3.13.3\builds\934 at hudson.model.Run.parseTimestampFromBuildDir(Run.java:332) at hudson.model.Run.<init>(Run.java:278) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild.<init>(AbstractBuild.java:182) at hudson.model.Build.<init>(Build.java:103) at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.<init>(FreeStyleBuild.java:41) at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor52.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) at hudson.model.AbstractProject.loadBuild(AbstractProject.java:1061) at hudson.model.AbstractProject$1.create(AbstractProject.java:275) at hudson.model.AbstractProject$1.create(AbstractProject.java:273) at hudson.model.RunMap.retrieve(RunMap.java:217) at hudson.model.RunMap.retrieve(RunMap.java:58) at jenkins.model.lazy.AbstractLazyLoadRunMap.load(AbstractLazyLoadRunMap.java:596) at jenkins.model.lazy.AbstractLazyLoadRunMap.load(AbstractLazyLoadRunMap.java:566) at jenkins.model.lazy.AbstractLazyLoadRunMap.search(AbstractLazyLoadRunMap.java:334) at jenkins.model.lazy.AbstractLazyLoadRunMap.getByNumber(AbstractLazyLoadRunMap.java:467) at jenkins.model.lazy.AbstractLazyLoadRunMap.search(AbstractLazyLoadRunMap.java:345) at jenkins.model.lazy.AbstractLazyLoadRunMap.newestBuild(AbstractLazyLoadRunMap.java:287) at hudson.model.AbstractProject.getLastBuild(AbstractProject.java:998) at hudson.model.AbstractProject.poll(AbstractProject.java:1364) at hudson.triggers.SCMTrigger$Runner.runPolling(SCMTrigger.java:420) at hudson.triggers.SCMTrigger$Runner.run(SCMTrigger.java:449) at hudson.util.SequentialExecutionQueue$QueueEntry.run(SequentialExecutionQueue.java:118) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "934" at java.text.DateFormat.parse(Unknown Source) at hudson.model.Run.parseTimestampFromBuildDir(Run.java:330) ... 29 more
parseTimestampFromBuildDir seems to be trying to read the linked directories instead of the timestamped ones.
This Jenkins installation is running on Windows Server 2008
Thorough testing only occurs in the LTS branch.
If you don’t want to do some testing of your own before rolling out a Jenkins upgrade I would recommend that you switch from the bleeding edge to LTS.
/James