"The ghprb trigger for Backend wasn't properly started - helper is null" error in GitHub Pull Request Builder plugin

[Tim Bartley]

I have GitHub Request builder plugin (1.17) set up in Jenkins 1.606. It's talking to a GitHub Enterprise setup (2.1.4) we have internally.

It's set up to use the web hook trigger to initiate a build against the pull request.

I receive the following messages in the Jenkins log when GitHub invokes this Web hook:

Apr 01, 2015 1:36:34 PM INFO org.jenkinsci.plugins.ghprb.GhprbRootAction doIndex

Got payload event: pull_request

Apr 01, 2015 1:36:34 PM SEVERE org.jenkinsci.plugins.ghprb.GhprbTrigger getRepository

The ghprb trigger for Backend Pull Request Build wasn't properly started - helper is null

Apr 01, 2015 1:36:34 PM SEVERE org.jenkinsci.plugins.ghprb.GhprbTrigger getRepository

The ghprb trigger for Backend wasn't properly started - helper is null

I suspect a configuration error since I don't see other reports of this issue. Any ideas what 'helper is null' might mean? Any other info I can provide?

Thanks,

Tim

[bruc...@autotrader.com]

did you ever figure this out? i'm having the same issue.

[Tim Bartley]

I did. I hadn't set GitHub Project in the job configuration.

I wrote it down here: https://github.com/janinko/ghprb/issues/249#issuecomment-93847906

Error message was swamped by the jmdns stuff.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Tim