We have builds that fail randomly with the "Failing task since text 'BUILD SUCCESS' was not found in last 250 log entries" error - and that will build OK if rerun manualy with no code change. We use the Maven 3 builder task.

Output:
simple 13-Dec-2011 08:52:47 Existing workspace found at '/dnb/data/bamboo-3.3.3/xml-data/build-dir/11304964/PORTAL-PORTALDOCUMENTCONVERTERTRUNK-COMPILE'. updating...
simple 13-Dec-2011 08:52:49 Updated source code to revision: 201035
simple 13-Dec-2011 08:52:49 Running postRetrieveSourceCode task...
simple 13-Dec-2011 08:52:49 Finished task 'Checkout Default Repository'
simple 13-Dec-2011 08:52:49 Running pre-build action: Build Number Stamper
simple 13-Dec-2011 08:52:49 Running pre-build action: Clover Grails PreBuild Action
simple 13-Dec-2011 08:52:49 Running pre-build action: VCS Version Collector
simple 13-Dec-2011 08:52:49 Running pre-build action: Repository Isolation Enabler Action
simple 13-Dec-2011 08:52:49 Running pre-build action: Maven Settings Prebuild Action
simple 13-Dec-2011 08:52:49 Starting task 'clean compile' of type 'com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.maven:task.builder.mvn3'
command 13-Dec-2011 08:52:49 Beginning to execute external process for build 'Portal - TRUNK portal-documentconverter - clean compile'<br /> ... running command line: <br />/dnb/prosess/maven-3.x/bin/mvn<br /> -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tmp/PORTAL-PORTALDOCUMENTCONVERTERTRUNK-COMPILE<br /> clean<br /> compile<br /> -e<br /> -X<br /> ... in: /dnb/data/bamboo-3.3.3/xml-data/build-dir/11304964/PORTAL-PORTALDOCUMENTCONVERTERTRUNK-COMPILE<br /> ... using extra environment variables: <br />MAVEN2_HOME=/dnb/prosess/maven-3.x<br />JAVA_HOME=/dnb/opt/IBM/WebSphere7/AppServer/java<br />M2_HOME=/dnb/prosess/maven-3.x<br />PATH=/dnb/opt/IBM/WebSphere7/AppServer/java/bin:/dnb/opt/jdk/bin:/dnb/opt/jdk/bin:/dnb/prosess/maven/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin<br />
simple 13-Dec-2011 08:53:03 Failing task since text 'BUILD SUCCESS' was not found in last 250 log entries
simple 13-Dec-2011 08:53:03 Finished task 'clean compile'