This used to work before I upgraded Jenkins to 1.494. Now I get this error in Jenkins when using the promoted builds plugin to copy the war artifact to the snapshot repo:
ERROR: Failed to deploy artifacts: Could not transfer artifact com.blah.data:RestWebServices:war:1.0-20121224.163825-2 from/to archiva.apache.snapshots (http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots): Failed to transfer file: http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots/com/blah/data/RestWebServices/1.0-SNAPSHOT/RestWebServices-1.0-20121224.163825-2.war. Return code is: 401, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized. org.apache.maven.artifact.deployer.ArtifactDeploymentException: Failed to deploy artifacts: Could not transfer artifact com.blah.data:RestWebServices:war:1.0-20121224.163825-2 from/to archiva.apache.snapshots (http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots): Failed to transfer file: http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots/com/blah/data/RestWebServices/1.0-SNAPSHOT/RestWebServices-1.0-20121224.163825-2.war. Return code is: 401, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized. at org.apache.maven.artifact.deployer.DefaultArtifactDeployer.deploy(DefaultArtifactDeployer.java:141) at hudson.maven.reporters.MavenArtifactRecord.deploy(MavenArtifactRecord.java:190) at hudson.maven.RedeployPublisher.perform(RedeployPublisher.java:173) at hudson.plugins.promoted_builds.Promotion$RunnerImpl.build(Promotion.java:187) at hudson.plugins.promoted_builds.Promotion$RunnerImpl.doRun(Promotion.java:141) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:586) at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1543) at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1489) at hudson.plugins.promoted_builds.Promotion.run(Promotion.java:106) at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:236) Caused by: org.sonatype.aether.deployment.DeploymentException: Failed to deploy artifacts: Could not transfer artifact com.blah.data:RestWebServices:war:1.0-20121224.163825-2 from/to archiva.apache.snapshots (http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots): Failed to transfer file: http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots/com/blah/data/RestWebServices/1.0-SNAPSHOT/RestWebServices-1.0-20121224.163825-2.war. Return code is: 401, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized. at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultDeployer.deploy(DefaultDeployer.java:280) at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultDeployer.deploy(DefaultDeployer.java:211) at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultRepositorySystem.deploy(DefaultRepositorySystem.java:443) at org.apache.maven.artifact.deployer.DefaultArtifactDeployer.deploy(DefaultArtifactDeployer.java:137) ... 10 more Caused by: org.sonatype.aether.transfer.ArtifactTransferException: Could not transfer artifact com.blah.data:RestWebServices:war:1.0-20121224.163825-2 from/to archiva.apache.snapshots (http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots): Failed to transfer file: http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots/com/blah/data/RestWebServices/1.0-SNAPSHOT/RestWebServices-1.0-20121224.163825-2.war. Return code is: 401, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized. at org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonRepositoryConnector$4.wrap(WagonRepositoryConnector.java:951) at org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonRepositoryConnector$4.wrap(WagonRepositoryConnector.java:941) at org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonRepositoryConnector$PutTask.run(WagonRepositoryConnector.java:837) at org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonRepositoryConnector.put(WagonRepositoryConnector.java:467) at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultDeployer.deploy(DefaultDeployer.java:274) ... 13 more Caused by: org.apache.maven.wagon.TransferFailedException: Failed to transfer file: http://10.31.31.64:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots/com/blah/data/RestWebServices/1.0-SNAPSHOT/RestWebServices-1.0-20121224.163825-2.war. Return code is: 401, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized. at org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon.put(AbstractHttpClientWagon.java:613) at org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon.put(AbstractHttpClientWagon.java:509) at org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon.put(AbstractHttpClientWagon.java:490) at org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon.put(AbstractHttpClientWagon.java:470) at org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonRepositoryConnector$PutTask.run(WagonRepositoryConnector.java:811) ... 15 more I have the creds in the settings.xml file: <server> <id>snapshots</id> <username>admin</username> <password>******</password> </server> Not sure why this all of a sudden stopped working with 1.494. I downgraded incrementally to 1.491 and it still happened. Very frustrating. I know what settings.xml file it is using since I added help:effective-settings to the build and it gets printed in the build.