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CCNET reports build failure with no reason

Answer 1

+1 A:

It's very hard to track down issues like this when the whole build process is done via a single CCNET task like this. It may not be an option, but I would recommend splitting the build process out from the single .bat file, and create separate CCNET tasks - it will make it much easier to see what is going on when things starting behaving oddly.

e.g. separate tasks for:

msbuild
fxcop
dbscripts
tests

If the problem is within the tests somewhere, that would soon become obvious as the tests task would fail but the other 3 would have succeeded.

Other than that, I'd suggest trying to log debug/progress info out along the way - trying to find the point at which it actually fails and go from there

AdaTheDev 2009-11-10 10:25:55

Good idea and i'll try it if can't find another solution. Some time ago i found that shell scripts are much easier to go with than tweaking ccnet config. The log is set to DEBUG but there is nothing useful for me in it.

UserControl 2009-11-10 11:51:47

I know what you mean, though once you're used to tweaking ccnet config it's not too bad. I find the granularity of smaller CCNET tasks is well worth it.

AdaTheDev 2009-11-10 12:45:48

Spent almost the whole day and ended up with your solution :(

UserControl 2009-11-10 17:01:52

Answer 2

+1 A:

Try running the console version of CCNET and enable DEBUG logging.

If this also succeeds then you have something in your build script that the service is not allowed to do.
If not then it should at least make the problem easier to diagnose.

GraemeF 2009-11-10 10:27:01

Thanks for the idea! Tried it and the console version builds the project just fine. But i can't imagine what is illegal from the service point of view. The only commands in the batch are: msbuild.exe, svn.exe, nunit-console.exe, fxcopcmd.exe plus a few calls to other batches (tried to comment them to localize the problem - no luck though). And the last changes i made to the batch were a week before the problem.

UserControl 2009-11-10 11:48:38

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