After upgrading to Jenkins 1.417 (from 1.416) the following error appeared in the console output while executing a job on our z/Linux build slave.
ERROR: Failed to archive test reports
hudson.util.IOException2: remote file operation failed: /homejenkins/workspace/****** at hudson.remoting.Channel@eae9cc:Runtime_zLinux_Slave
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:754)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:740)
at hudson.tasks.junit.JUnitParser.parse(JUnitParser.java:83)
at hudson.tasks.junit.JUnitResultArchiver.parse(JUnitResultArchiver.java:123)
at hudson.tasks.junit.JUnitResultArchiver.perform(JUnitResultArchiver.java:135)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:19)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.perform(AbstractBuild.java:664)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:639)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:617)
at hudson.model.Build$RunnerImpl.post2(Build.java:161)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.post(AbstractBuild.java:586)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1400)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:146)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Remote call on Runtime_zLinux_Slave failed
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:676)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:747)
... 14 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/TokenizedPath
at org.apache.tools.ant.DirectoryScanner.scan(DirectoryScanner.java:869)
at org.apache.tools.ant.types.AbstractFileSet.getDirectoryScanner(AbstractFileSet.java:490)
at org.apache.tools.ant.types.AbstractFileSet.getDirectoryScanner(AbstractFileSet.java:451)
at hudson.tasks.junit.JUnitParser$ParseResultCallable.invoke(JUnitParser.java:105)
at hudson.tasks.junit.JUnitParser$ParseResultCallable.invoke(JUnitParser.java:87)
at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:1980)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:283)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:452)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:314)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:897)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:919)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:736)
The JRE used on the build slave is "IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Linux s390x-64".