They've been failing consistently for 20 days. Seems like tests are often passing fine, but something else goes wrong, either right after (or during?) maven, where it is trying to spawn ant? See the very end of this log for an example:
https://builds.apache.org/job/Hive-trunk-h0.21/846/console Did some configuration change on the build machine? JVS ---- maven-publish-artifact : [artifact:install-provider] Installing provider: org.apache.maven.wagon:wagon-http:jar:1.0-beta-2:runtime [artifact:deploy] Deploying to https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots [artifact:deploy] [INFO] Retrieving previous build number from apache.snapshots.https [artifact:deploy] Uploading: org/apache/hive/hive-shims/0.8.0-SNAPSHOT/hive-shims-0.8.0-20110725.192514-42.jar to repository apache.snapshots.https at https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots [artifact:deploy] Transferring 76K from apache.snapshots.https [artifact:deploy] Uploaded 76K [artifact:deploy] [INFO] Retrieving previous metadata from apache.snapshots.https [artifact:deploy] [INFO] Uploading repository metadata for: 'snapshot org.apache.hive:hive-shims:0.8.0-SNAPSHOT' [artifact:deploy] [INFO] Retrieving previous metadata from apache.snapshots.https [artifact:deploy] [INFO] Uploading repository metadata for: 'artifact org.apache.hive:hive-shims' [artifact:deploy] [INFO] Uploading project information for hive-shims 0.8.0-20110725.192514-42 BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 207 minutes 4 seconds [hive] $ ant FATAL: command execution failed.Maybe you need to configure the job to choose one of your Ant installations? java.io.IOException : Cannot run program "ant" (in directory "/home/jenkins/jenkins-slave/workspace/Hive-trunk-h0.21/hive"): java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:460) at hudson.Proc$LocalProc.<init>(Proc.java:244) at hudson.Proc$LocalProc.<init>(Proc.java:216) at hudson.Launcher$LocalLauncher.launch(Launcher.java:698) at hudson.Launcher$ProcStarter.start(Launcher.java:329)
