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I have a fresh Jenkins install on Ubuntu

  1. New Job -> Build multi-configuration project

  2. Scroll down and click "Add build step" -> Execute shell and enter:

    echo hello

  3. Run the job (it succeeds)

  4. Look at the Console Output for the run:

    Started by user My Name
Building in workspace /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/my_job/workspace
Triggering default
default completed with result SUCCESS
Finished: SUCCESS

Follow the steps again, but with the Execute shell:

echo hello
thisshouldfail

and you get...

Started by user My Name
Building in workspace /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/my_job/workspace
Triggering default
default completed with result FAILURE
Finished: FAILURE

Notice how nowhere do you see "hello" in the output. This goes for anything I might put in that Execute Shell. Any help?

ebeezer
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  • Is there a verbose or debug mode you can set to get all the output? I get all the output on mine – jchapa Dec 07 '12 at 02:50
  • I don't know. I poked around and even googled for it. I don't know anything about jenkins or java really, so I'm in the dark here. – ebeezer Dec 07 '12 at 08:13
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    A multi-configuration build is a very different beast then a regular build. Unless you got reasons for using a multi-configuration build, you should try a regular "freestyle" build first. Everything you wrote should work just as expected in freestyle build – Slav Dec 08 '12 at 03:03

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When running a Multi-Configuration project, the log you see is of the Manager-job,
and it only shows you the summary of the complete run, which is, basically:
"I ran all your jobs, and all went OK" (Finished: SUCCESS)
or
"I ran all your jobs, and at least one of them failed" (Finished: FAILURE)

It cannot give you a single log of all the runs, because they ran multiple times
(on different slaves and/or different configurations).

To see the log of each run, click each red (or blue) "ball" in the matrix -
each represents a single instance of that Multi-Configuration build.

Gonen
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    Thanks Gonen! Not sure what the purpose is of a multi-config project, unless it's to confuse people and make them post this question on SO. Slav's comment to the OP above pretty much nailed it. – ebeezer Dec 11 '12 at 01:12
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    Well, I think the idea is nice, but the UI can be improved... Surely it does not fit the common build flow. – Gonen Dec 11 '12 at 12:09