I tried a few times more and now it gives me "remote call ... failed". And I can run java -jar slave.jar locally on the slave although it gives the expected complaint that I should not be starting the slave from the console.
[07/01/13 16:52:10] [SSH] Checking java version of java [07/01/13 16:52:10] [SSH] java -version returned 1.6.0_27. [07/01/13 16:52:10] [SSH] Starting sftp client. [07/01/13 16:52:10] [SSH] Copying latest slave.jar... [07/01/13 16:52:10] [SSH] Copied 326,006 bytes. Expanded the channel window size to 4MB [07/01/13 16:52:10] [SSH] Starting slave process: cd '/jenkins_home' && java -jar slave.jar <===[JENKINS REMOTING CAPACITY]===>channel started java.io.IOException: Remote call on b-solarisx86-02 failed at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:731) at hudson.slaves.SlaveComputer.setChannel(SlaveComputer.java:451) 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) ... builder@b-solarisx86-02:/jenkins_home$ java -jar slave.jar WARNING: Are you running slave agent from an interactive console? If so, you are probably using it incorrectly. See http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Launching+slave.jar+from+from+console <===[JENKINS REMOTING CAPACITY]===>rO0ABXNyABpodWRzb24ucmVtb3RpbmcuQ2FwYWJpbGl0eQAAAAAAAAABAgABSgAEbWFza3hwAAAAAAAAAB4=?? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.