I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask about this, but it looks like I ran into a but with Jenkins workflow-plugin.
Try this workflow-plugin groovy code: node('master'){ git url: 'https://github.com/gclayburg/mongodbhello.git' archive 'pom.xml, policyconsole/' } node('builderbee'){ unarchive mapping: ['pom.xml' : '.', 'policyconsole/' : '.'] sh 'pwd' } The plugin erroneously tries to create a directory named pom.xml, instead of creating a workspace directory. This issue does NOT occur if the first step in the node() is something other than unarchive. Here is the stacktrace: java.io.IOException: remote file operation failed: /tmp/slave/workspace/npe2/policyconsole/pom.xml at hudson.remoting.Channel@2e354a96:bagley-dind: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /tmp/slave/workspace/npe2/policyconsole/pom.xml (Not a directory) at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:977) at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:959) at hudson.FilePath.write(FilePath.java:1870) at hudson.FilePath.copyFrom(FilePath.java:874) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.ArtifactUnarchiverStepExecution.copy(ArtifactUnarchiverStepExecution.java:69) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.ArtifactUnarchiverStepExecution.run(ArtifactUnarchiverStepExecution.java:58) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.ArtifactUnarchiverStepExecution.run(ArtifactUnarchiverStepExecution.java:21) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.AbstractSynchronousStepExecution.start(AbstractSynchronousStepExecution.java:34) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.DSL.invokeMethod(DSL.java:137) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScript.invokeMethod(CpsScript.java:98) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaClassSite.call(PogoMetaClassSite.java:45) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:42) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:108) at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.sandbox.DefaultInvoker.methodCall(DefaultInvoker.java:15) at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationGroup.methodCall(ContinuationGroup.java:69) at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.FunctionCallBlock$ContinuationImpl.dispatchOrArg(FunctionCallBlock.java:100) at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.FunctionCallBlock$ContinuationImpl.fixArg(FunctionCallBlock.java:76) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor198.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationPtr$ContinuationImpl.receive(ContinuationPtr.java:72) at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.CollectionLiteralBlock$ContinuationImpl.dispatch(CollectionLiteralBlock.java:55) at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.CollectionLiteralBlock$ContinuationImpl.item(CollectionLiteralBlock.java:45) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor202.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationPtr$ContinuationImpl.receive(ContinuationPtr.java:72) at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.CollectionLiteralBlock$ContinuationImpl.dispatch(CollectionLiteralBlock.java:55) at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.CollectionLiteralBlock$ContinuationImpl.item(CollectionLiteralBlock.java:45) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor202.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationPtr$ContinuationImpl.receive(ContinuationPtr.java:72) at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ConstantBlock.eval(ConstantBlock.java:21) at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Next.step(Next.java:58) at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Continuable.run0(Continuable.java:145) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThread.runNextChunk(CpsThread.java:164) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.run(CpsThreadGroup.java:267) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.access$000(CpsThreadGroup.java:70) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup$2.call(CpsThreadGroup.java:176) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup$2.call(CpsThreadGroup.java:174) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsVmExecutorService$2.call(CpsVmExecutorService.java:47) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) at hudson.remoting.SingleLaneExecutorService$1.run(SingleLaneExecutorService.java:111) at jenkins.util.ContextResettingExecutorService$1.run(ContextResettingExecutorService.java:28) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /tmp/slave/workspace/npe2/policyconsole/pom.xml (Not a directory) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:221) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:171) at hudson.FilePath$36.invoke(FilePath.java:1875) at hudson.FilePath$36.invoke(FilePath.java:1870) at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:2677) at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:121) at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:49) at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:324) at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:68) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) at ......remote call to bagley-dind(Native Method) at hudson.remoting.Channel.attachCallSiteStackTrace(Channel.java:1356) at hudson.remoting.UserResponse.retrieve(UserRequest.java:221) at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:752) at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:970) ... 49 more Finished: FAILURE -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. 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