Continuous Failure Loop
 

I ran into a problem with the failure steps of one of my build scripts. The first Filure step calls a Global Sub Routine called Rollback Vs.Net solution to Latest Backup. Now, if one of the steps of this sub routine fails then the Failure Steps start over and I get into a continuous loop that never ends.

What is the best way to prevent this?

I have tried checking Continue Building and that has no effect. I have tried to specify a build failure step and that has no effect either.

Either uncheck the 'Build failure steps' checkbox on the global subroutine steps that get called from failure steps or set the failure subroutine to call on those steps to a failure subroutine that doesn't include the same steps that are called for other steps that might fail. The second method worked in my tests; please ZIP and post/send a reproducible test case for "I have tried to specify a build failure step and that has no effect either."

Sounds like you are saying that Failure Steps can only call global sub routines that have the "Build Failure Steps" checkbox selected. Is that the case?

No, it can work either way, but if it is checked, you'll need to ensure that a failing failure step doesn't get called again if the global subroutine step called from a failure step fails.