Nexus accepts upload but says it failed

Question

When I execute mvn release:perform on a parent POM, the server is responding with this error about one of the child projects (filenames redacted):

Answer 1

I encountered the same issue, releasing a maven multi-module project. An error occured the first time but the deploy goal had already contact nexus and then create the appropriate path. Assuming that a "release" repo is a write-once one, the second time I trggered it, nexus refuse to overwrite the path.

So, in such a case, you might ask your admin to delete the repo ... or create a new release.

PS : better late than never ;)