diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c50152d2b3..ab4724b681 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -72,3 +72,4 @@ nupic.egg-info/
 nupic/*py_region.*
 temp/
 docs/_build_html
+/src/nupic/support/nupic-site.xml
diff --git a/src/nupic/swarming/exp_generator/experimentDescriptionSchema.json b/src/nupic/swarming/exp_generator/experimentDescriptionSchema.json
index 5956aedace..e52811ab56 100644
--- a/src/nupic/swarming/exp_generator/experimentDescriptionSchema.json
+++ b/src/nupic/swarming/exp_generator/experimentDescriptionSchema.json
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
         "integer",
         "null"
       ], 
-      "description": "Maximum number of models to evaluate. This replaces the older location of this specification from the job params. "
+      "description": "Maximum number of models to evaluate. This replaces the older location of this specification from the job params."
     }, 
     "spPermuteDecrement": {
       "default": true, 
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
       "description": "inferenceArgs -- arguments for the type of inference you want to use"
     }, 
     "prediction": {
-      "description": " [DEPRECATED] Prediction optimization options; at least one MUST be enabled. NOTE: at this time, non-temporal and temporalpredictions are mutually-exclusive (RunPermutations cannot yetoptimize for both). This is deprecated. Used inferenceType instead", 
+      "description": " [DEPRECATED] Prediction optimization options; at least one MUST be enabled. NOTE: at this time, non-temporal and temporal predictions are mutually-exclusive (RunPermutations cannot yet optimize for both). This is deprecated. Used inferenceType instead",
       "default": {
         "temporal": {
           "optimize": true
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
     "customErrorMetric": {
       "required": false, 
       "type": "object", 
-      "description": "Custom User definied Error metric that will be computed"
+      "description": "Custom User defined Error metric that will be computed"
     }, 
     "spCoincInputPoolPct": {
       "default": 0.8, 
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
       "description": "Flag to run baseline error metrics with the job for comparison"
     }, 
     "metrics": {
-      "description": "Additional metrics to be generated, along with thedefault ones for the given inferenceType. Note: The specified metric should be compatible withe the giveninference", 
+      "description": "Additional metrics to be generated, along with the default ones for the given inferenceType. Note: The specified metric should be compatible withe the given inference",
       "default": [], 
       "items": {
         "required": true, 
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@
       "minLength": 1, 
       "required": false, 
       "type": "string", 
-      "description": "[DEPRECATED] Name of field we're trying to predict. This is deprected. Used inferenceArgs.predictedField instead"
+      "description": "[DEPRECATED] Name of field we're trying to predict. This is deprecated. Used inferenceArgs.predictedField instead"
     }, 
     "streamDef": {
       "minLength": 1, 
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@
           "space": {
             "required": false, 
             "type": "string", 
-            "description": "A way to customize which spaces (absolute, delta) are evaluted when runDelta is True. "
+            "description": "A way to customize which spaces (absolute, delta) are evaluated when runDelta is True."
           }, 
           "maxValue": {
             "required": false, 
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@
           "encoderType": {
             "required": false, 
             "type": "string", 
-            "description": "Encoder type, for example 'ScalarEncoder, AdaptiveScalarEncoder, etc. "
+            "description": "Encoder type, for example 'ScalarEncoder, AdaptiveScalarEncoder, etc."
           }
         }
       }, 
diff --git a/src/nupic/swarming/exp_generator/experiment_generator.py b/src/nupic/swarming/exp_generator/experiment_generator.py
index 0c9adf0c05..f0eb242540 100755
--- a/src/nupic/swarming/exp_generator/experiment_generator.py
+++ b/src/nupic/swarming/exp_generator/experiment_generator.py
@@ -1858,7 +1858,7 @@ def _generateMetricSpecs(options):
 
 def _generateExtraMetricSpecs(options):
   """Generates the non-default metrics specified by the expGenerator params """
-  global _metricSpecSchema
+  _metricSpecSchema = {'properties': {}}
 
   results = []
   for metric in options['metrics']:
diff --git a/src/nupic/swarming/permutations_runner.py b/src/nupic/swarming/permutations_runner.py
index cd17ca82f9..428b0a43cb 100644
--- a/src/nupic/swarming/permutations_runner.py
+++ b/src/nupic/swarming/permutations_runner.py
@@ -626,10 +626,12 @@ def _launchWorkers(self, cmdLine, numWorkers):
 
     self._workers = []
     for i in range(numWorkers):
-      stdout = tempfile.TemporaryFile()
-      stderr = tempfile.TemporaryFile()
+      stdout = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False)
+      stderr = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False)
       p = subprocess.Popen(cmdLine, bufsize=1, env=os.environ, shell=True,
                            stdin=None, stdout=stdout, stderr=stderr)
+      p._stderr_file = stderr
+      p._stdout_file = stdout
       self._workers.append(p)
 
 
@@ -1456,7 +1458,9 @@ def __init__(self, nupicJobID, workers):
           status = cjdao.ClientJobsDAO.STATUS_RUNNING
         else:
           status = cjdao.ClientJobsDAO.STATUS_COMPLETED
-
+          if retCode != 0:
+            with open(worker._stderr_file.name, 'r') as err:
+              _emit(Verbosity.WARNING, "Job %d failed with error: %s" % (jobInfo.jobId, err.read()))
         jobInfo = jobInfo._replace(status=status)
 
       _emit(Verbosity.DEBUG, "JobStatus: \n%s" % pprint.pformat(jobInfo,