We have of some reason earlier had the overwrite release enabled on nexus. Which can make chaos.
Sonatype Nexus™ 2.3.1-01
executable-war /home/jenkins/jenkins-1.555.war
So now we disabled that, so a release cannot be overwritten. However it seems to fail somehow. I am not overwriting any file but I still get the following now. Same error as if I would be overwriting a file:
[INFO] [war:war {execution: default-war}]
[INFO] Packaging webapp
[INFO] Assembling webapp [PROJ] in [/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/PROJ/target/PROJ-1.1.0]
[INFO] Processing war project
[INFO] Copying webapp resources [/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/PROJ/src/main/webapp]
[INFO] Webapp assembled in [153 msecs]
[INFO] Building war: /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/PROJ/target/PROJ-1.1.0.war
[INFO] [install:install {execution: default-install}]
[INFO] Installing /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/PROJ/target/PROJ-1.1.0.war to /home/jenkins/.m2/repository/com/norsktipping/PROJ/1.1.0/PROJ-1.1.0.war
[INFO] [deploy:deploy {execution: default-deploy}] Uploading: http://url:8081/nexus/content/repositories/releases/com/norsktipping/PROJ/1.1.0/PROJ-1.1.0.war 25890K uploaded (PROJ-1.1.0.war)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
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[INFO] Error deploying artifact: Failed to transfer file: http://url:8081/nexus/content/repositories/releases/com/company/PROJ/1.1.0/PROJ-1.1.0.war.md5. Return code is: 400
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[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
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[INFO] Total time: 17 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Oct 28 16:39:44 CET 2015
[INFO] Final Memory: 48M/406M
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[JENKINS] Archiving /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/PROJ/pom.xml to com.company/PROJ/1.1.0/PROJ-1.1.0.pom
[JENKINS] Archiving /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/PROJ/target/PROJ-1.1.0.war to com.company/PROJ/1.1.0/PROJ-1.1.0.war