postbuild UIAutomation script not running in jenkins

Jenkins by default installs as a LaunchDaemon, which means it has insufficient permissions to launch WindowsServer.

You’ll need to configure it as a LaunchAgent:

sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jenkins-ci.plistsudo mv /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jenkins-ci.plist /Library/LaunchAgents/org.jenkins-ci.plist

Then login as Jenkins and keep a session open.

If you don't know the Jenkins password you can change it with:

sudo passwd jenkins

Jenkins is running as a daemon and is therefore not allowed to connect to the window server. More info here http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2083/_index.html.

Sorry - not got time to put a complete answer now, will update later....

This is possible if you run jenkins as a user app rather than as a deamon -- this might come in handy (https://github.com/stisti/jenkins-app) I haven't tried it but looks like it should work -- I went down another route setting up an always logged in user, that ran jenkins from a login script, it did mean I had to re-install jenkins but managed to get it up and running... word of warning from someone thats been through it, are you using instruments for automated testing? If so, you'll need to do some transformation on the output so it displays in Jenkins.