That must be it. I had removed the '/' earlier since on OS X the temp dir path ends with '/', and at the time I believed it was the cause of some other failures (which I'm guessing I was wrong about). I can easily make the logic account for both cases.
Sean On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Sebastian Schelter <sebastian.schel...@zalando.de> wrote: > Hi Sean, > > I can only do I guess why the test fails: > > Line 225 in ItemSimilarityTest is missing a / when constructing the path > to the temporary directory: > > String tmpDirPath = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") + > ItemSimilarityTest.class.getCanonicalName(); > > which makes it > > /tmporg.apache.mahout.cf.taste.hadoop.similarity.item.ItemSimilarityTest > > on my system for example. Maybe the hudson user on the CI server is not > allowed to create this path. > > Sebastian >