I recently created a new job and before building it, realized that I had used the '-' character in the Job name where I should have used '_'. I used the job configuration page to rename the job to the correct name. Jenkins came back and asked me if I was sure that I wanted to rename the job. I answer yes. When I ran the job, it would show briefly then disappear. Looking at the View that included the job, the job continued to show 0 builds. The only way to see the builds was to restart Jenkins. After the restart, all the builds showed up - as many as 6 in some cases (because I had clicked "Build" six times wondering where the results were). I have noticed this a couple of times now.
I am running Jenkins 1.493 on openSUSE with Java 1.6