Jenkins error - Remote call on slave fails

Question

Jenkins build fails with error "FATAL: java.io.IOException: Remote call on "slave_node" failed hudson.remoting.RemotingSystemException: java.io.IOException: Remote call on "slave_node" failed.

at   hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler.invoke(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:195)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy80.setProxy(Unknown Source)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl.setProxy(RemoteGitImpl.java:856)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.Git.getClient(Git.java:133)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.createClient(GitSCM.java:677)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.createClient(GitSCM.java:669)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1010)
at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:484)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1270)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:622)
at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:528)
at com.tikal.jenkins.plugins.multijob.MultiJobBuild$MultiJobRunnerImpl.run(MultiJobBuild.java:134)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1759)
at com.tikal.jenkins.plugins.multijob.MultiJobBuild.run(MultiJobBuild.java:73)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:89)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:240)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Remote call on ffuas4eng01 failed
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:760)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler.invoke(RemoteInvocationHandler.java:179)
... 16 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class hudson.util.Secret
at sun.misc.Unsafe.ensureClassInitialized(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.UnsafeFieldAccessorFactory.newFieldAccessor(UnsafeFieldAccessorFactory.java:43)
at   sun.reflect.ReflectionFactory.newFieldAccessor(ReflectionFactory.java:142)
at java.lang.reflect.Field.acquireFieldAccessor(Field.java:1088)
at java.lang.reflect.Field.getFieldAccessor(Field.java:1069)
at java.lang.reflect.Field.getLong(Field.java:611)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.getDeclaredSUID(ObjectStreamClass.java:1707)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.access$700(ObjectStreamClass.java:72)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass$2.run(ObjectStreamClass.java:484)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass$2.run(ObjectStreamClass.java:472)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.<init>(ObjectStreamClass.java:472)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.lookup(ObjectStreamClass.java:369)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.initNonProxy(ObjectStreamClass.java:598)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1623)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1518)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1774)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1351)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2000)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1924)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1801)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1351)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readArray(ObjectInputStream.java:1707)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1345)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2000)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1924)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1801)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1351)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:371)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.deserialize(UserRequest.java:185)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:99)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:49)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:324)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:68)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
at ......remote call to ffuas4eng01(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)
... 17 more

I don't understand the issue. Could someone help me? The master and slave are correctly set up as far as i can see. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Turned out to be an SSH permission denied issue for me. I discovered that by disconnecting and relaunching the node.

Answer 2

I kill the java process and tried again with success.

Answer 3

This is a two-year old question, but for what it's worth, I had the same thing happen to me. I fixed it by removing the slave and then adding it back in. It was previously add and the log file showed it, so not sure what was wrong. At any rate, if this happens to anyone, give that a try.