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Ron K commented on JENKINS-12921: --------------------------------- There is also an exception visible in the Jenkins log, which might be related to this issue: Caused by: java.lang.AssertionError: class com.sonyericsson.hudson.plugins.gerrit.trigger.hudsontrigger.data.Branch is missing its descriptor in public java.util.List com.sonyericsson.hudson.plugins.gerrit.trigger.hudsontrigger.data.GerritProject.getBranches(). See https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/My+class+is+missing+descriptor at hudson.model.Descriptor$PropertyType.getItemTypeDescriptorOrDie(Descriptor.java:194) The full stack trace of this exception can be seen here: http://pastebin.com/Nm5FVKZB > Trigger fails to build with "Null value not allowed as an environment > variable: GIT_BRANCH" error > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: JENKINS-12921 > URL: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-12921 > Project: Jenkins > Issue Type: Bug > Components: gerrit-trigger > Affects Versions: current > Environment: Ubuntu server, Jenkins 1.451, Gerrit Trigger 2.4.0, Git > Plugin 1.1.15 > Reporter: Ron K > Assignee: rsandell > > When a build is started by the Gerrit Trigger, it always fails with the error > and > stack track pasted below: > Manually triggered by user admin for Gerrit: http://localhost:8080/79 > Building in workspace /mntf/jenkins/jobs/GerritBuilder/workspace > Checkout:workspace / /mntf/jenkins/jobs/GerritBuilder/workspace - > hudson.remoting.LocalChannel@72cbb9 > Using strategy: Gerrit Trigger > Checkout:workspace / /mntf/jenkins/jobs/GerritBuilder/workspace - > hudson.remoting.LocalChannel@72cbb9 > Fetching changes from 1 remote Git repository > Fetching upstream changes from ssh://jenkins@localhost:29418/myrepo.git > Commencing build of Revision 4514e900f88eb22c7c006aa8b8971f55e08b0324 () > FATAL: Null value not allowed as an environment variable: GIT_BRANCH > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Null value not allowed as an environment > variable: GIT_BRANCH > at hudson.EnvVars.put(EnvVars.java:162) > at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1101) > at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1195) > at > hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:576) > at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:465) > at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1409) > at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:481) > at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88) > at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:238) > The configuration of the trigger is along the lines given in Alex Blewitt's > article (http://www.infoq.com/articles/Gerrit-jenkins-hudson). Specifically, > the project and branch are configure as: > Path - ** - Path - ** > Searching the forums, mailing lists, and irc logs did not yield a solution, > so we're assuming it's a bug and not > a config issue. -- 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