[JaCoCo plugin] Collecting JaCoCo coverage data...
[JaCoCo plugin] project1/build/jacoco/**.exec, project2/build/jacoco/**.exec;project1/build/classes, project2/build/classes;project1/src, project2/src; locations are configured
[JaCoCo plugin] Number of found exec files: 1
[JaCoCo plugin] Saving matched execfiles: /build/jenkins/workspace/acath-test-job/project2/build/jacoco/test.exec
[JaCoCo plugin] Saving matched class directories:
[JaCoCo plugin] Saving matched source directories:
[JaCoCo plugin] Loading inclusions files..
[JaCoCo plugin] inclusions: []
[JaCoCo plugin] exclusions: []
ERROR: Publisher hudson.plugins.jacoco.JacocoPublisher aborted due to exception
java.lang.IllegalStateException: basedir /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/acath-test-job/builds/2014-06-05_10-58-35/jacoco/classes does not exist
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryScanner.scan(DirectoryScanner.java:550)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.FileUtils.getFileAndDirectoryNames(FileUtils.java:1717)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.FileUtils.getFileNames(FileUtils.java:1645)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.FileUtils.getFileNames(FileUtils.java:1627)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.FileUtils.getFiles(FileUtils.java:1601)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.FileUtils.getFiles(FileUtils.java:1584)
at hudson.plugins.jacoco.ExecutionFileLoader.analyzeStructure(ExecutionFileLoader.java:129)
at hudson.plugins.jacoco.ExecutionFileLoader.loadBundleCoverage(ExecutionFileLoader.java:138)
at hudson.plugins.jacoco.JacocoReportDir.parse(JacocoReportDir.java:102)
at hudson.plugins.jacoco.JacocoBuildAction.loadRatios(JacocoBuildAction.java:278)
at hudson.plugins.jacoco.JacocoBuildAction.load(JacocoBuildAction.java:260)
at hudson.plugins.jacoco.JacocoPublisher.perform(JacocoPublisher.java:380)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$3.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:45)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:744)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:714)
at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.post2(Build.java:182)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.post(AbstractBuild.java:663)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1714)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:231)
Finished: FAILURE
Not only does it not work, but you can end up with an RTE because no files are found: