These slaves were using java 1.5. So I upgraded them all to 1.6. But slaves cannot start using the same old method (launch slave agents on Unix machines using ssh) as before the upgrade. I tried to debug by switching to launch slave vis execution of command on Master. ssh <slave-machine> scp <master>:/jenkins/data/plugins/maven-plugin/WEB-INF/lib/maven-agent-1.3.jar /jenkins_home/maven-agent.jar worked fine but ssh <slave-machine> cd /jenkins/home && java -jar slave.jar failed. There is no permission problem. Why did the copy fail? (My other slaves e.g. linux, linux ia64, freebsd etc that have been using java 1.6 all came up without any problems.) ...
[07/01/13 16:14:52] [SSH] Checking java version of java [07/01/13 16:14:52] [SSH] java -version returned 1.6.0_27. [07/01/13 16:14:52] [SSH] Starting sftp client. [07/01/13 16:14:52] [SSH] Copying latest slave.jar... [07/01/13 16:14:52] [SSH] Copied 326,006 bytes. Expanded the channel window size to 4MB [07/01/13 16:14:52] [SSH] Starting slave process: cd '/jenkins_home' && java -jar slave.jar <===[JENKINS REMOTING CAPACITY]===>channel started Slave.jar version: 2.24 This is a Unix slave hudson.util.IOException2: Failed to copy /jenkins/data/plugins/maven-plugin/WEB-INF/lib/maven-agent-1.3.jar to /jenkins_home/maven-agent.jar at hudson.FilePath.copyTo(FilePath.java:1731) at hudson.maven.MavenComputerListener.copyJar(MavenComputerListener.java:90) at hudson.maven.MavenComputerListener.preOnline(MavenComputerListener.java:57) at hudson.slaves.SlaveComputer.setChannel(SlaveComputer.java:473) at hudson.slaves.SlaveComputer.setChannel(SlaveComputer.java:347) at hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher.startSlave(SSHLauncher.java:712) at hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher.launch(SSHLauncher.java:498) at hudson.slaves.SlaveComputer$1.call(SlaveComputer.java:230) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) Caused by: java.io.IOException: Remote call on b-solarisx86-02 failed at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:731) at hudson.FilePath.write(FilePath.java:1625) at hudson.FilePath.copyTo(FilePath.java:1724) ... 12 more Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/io/input/ProxyInputStream at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:465) at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.loadClassFile(RemoteClassLoader.java:289) at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.findClass(RemoteClassLoader.java:229) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredFields(Class.java:2291) at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredField(Class.java:1880) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.getDeclaredSUID(ObjectStreamClass.java:1610) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.access$700(ObjectStreamClass.java:52) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass$2.run(ObjectStreamClass.java:425) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.<init>(ObjectStreamClass.java:413) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.lookup(ObjectStreamClass.java:310) at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.initNonProxy(ObjectStreamClass.java:547) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1582) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1495) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1731) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1328) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1946) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1870) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1752) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1328) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:350) at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.deserialize(UserRequest.java:182) at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:98) at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48) at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:326) at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72) ... 5 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.io.input.ProxyInputStream at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.findClass(RemoteClassLoader.java:237) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) ... 37 more Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file at hudson.remoting.ResourceImageInJar$1.adapt(ResourceImageInJar.java:48) at hudson.remoting.ResourceImageInJar$1.adapt(ResourceImageInJar.java:42) at hudson.remoting.FutureAdapter.get(FutureAdapter.java:55) at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.findClass(RemoteClassLoader.java:229) ... 39 more Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:127) at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:135) at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:72) at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.URLJarFile.<init>(URLJarFile.java:72) at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.URLJarFile.getJarFile(URLJarFile.java:48) at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarFileFactory.get(JarFileFactory.java:55) at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarURLConnection.connect(JarURLConnection.java:104) at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarURLConnection.getInputStream(JarURLConnection.java:132) at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1010) at hudson.remoting.ResourceImageInJar$1.adapt(ResourceImageInJar.java:46) ... 42 more [07/01/13 16:14:54] [SSH] Connection closed. ERROR: Connection terminatedjava.io.IOException <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search?query=java.io.IOException>: Unexpected termination of the channel at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:50) <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run&entity=method> Caused by: java.io.EOFException <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search?query=java.io.EOFException> at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2553) <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte&entity=method> at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1296) <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0&entity=method> at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:350) <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject&entity=method> at hudson.remoting.Command.readFrom(Command.java:92) <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.remoting.Command.readFrom&entity=method> at hudson.remoting.ClassicCommandTransport.read(ClassicCommandTransport.java:59) <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.remoting.ClassicCommandTransport.read&entity=method> at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:48) <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run&entity=method> ERROR: [07/01/13 16:14:54] slave agent was terminatedjava.io.IOException <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search?query=java.io.IOException>: Unexpected termination of the channel at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:50) <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run&entity=method> Caused by: java.io.EOFException <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search?query=java.io.EOFException> at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2553) <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte&entity=method> at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1296) <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0&entity=method> at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:350) <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject&entity=method> at hudson.remoting.Command.readFrom(Command.java:92) <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.remoting.Command.readFrom&entity=method> at hudson.remoting.ClassicCommandTransport.read(ClassicCommandTransport.java:59) <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.remoting.ClassicCommandTransport.read&entity=method> at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:48) <http://stacktrace.jenkins-ci.org/search/?query=hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run&entity=method> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. 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