Nicolas De Loof created JENKINS-13824: -----------------------------------------
Summary: Jenkins can't monitor external job if master has no executor set Key: JENKINS-13824 URL: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-13824 Project: Jenkins Issue Type: Bug Components: core Reporter: Nicolas De Loof Assignee: Nicolas De Loof Run#run(Runner job) uses Charset charset = Computer.currentComputer().getDefaultCharset() to get the local encoding to write the build log. When Jenkins master is configured with 0 executors (delegating 100% work to slaves), currentComputer() returns null, so a NullPointerException and run is recorded as FAILED. hudson.model.Run handleFatalBuildProblem SEVERE: #13 failed to build and we don't even have a listener java.lang.NullPointerException -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira