Why won't my NAnt builds run in Hudson?

Question

My NAnt builds run fine locally on a developer machine, and locally on the command line of the Hudson server, but they will not run in my configured Hudson project.

The console output when I run a Build via the Hudson web UI is similar to the following :

Started by user anonymous [workspace] $ sh -xe C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\hudson8104357939096562606.sh C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\hudson8104357939096562606.sh: fork failed: no error [1] Archiving artifacts Finished: SUCCESS

I have another project configured properly that runs fine so I know the NAnt plugin is setup properly in Hudson, and that NAnt is on the system path.

Can anyone suggest possible causes as to why this build won't run?

Answer 1

The problematic build may be configured to Execute a Shell script, rather than Execute a Windows Batch file.

Copy the command from the existing build step (the Execute Shell Script) and remove the step. Then add a new step to Execute a windows Batch File and paste the command.

Trigger the build and observe the results.

(I asked and answered this since it took me quite a while to figure out how I had mis-configured this particular build. Hopefully it'll save time or give ideas to other people trouble-shooting automation..)