We are currently seeing the following issue using the jenkins-cli.jar
with Jenkins 1.430. Tried going to 1.431, same issue.

Each time we insure we have the latest matching jenkins-cli.jar using the link on the Manage Jenkins page.

From inside a Jenkins job (I'll call it the parent) I'm trying to
execute multiple jobs using the client jar. On the last job, I
include the -s parameter so the parent job will not finish until the
last job in the list is complete. The problem is that after about 15
secs of waiting, the parent job ends (fails) with the EOF exception
below.

IMPORTANT INFO: When performing this exact same build using an older hudson-cli.jar with an older (pre-fork) version of Hudson v1.339, THIS WORKS. We want to move all of our builds over to the latest Jenkins version, and this is blocking us at the moment.

We have searched all day and tried numerous things including
reducing the number of jobs and also trying to run them sequentially.

Stack trace seen in Console at failure:

[workspace] $ /bin/bash -xe /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.14_jenkins/temp/
hudson4690948305077288103.sh
+ WAR_FOLDER=/tmp/trunk/UIToolkit1.1.2
+ rm -rf /tmp/trunk/UIToolkit1.1.2/calendar.war /tmp/trunk/
UIToolkit1.1.2/Pay.war /tmp/trunk/UIToolkit1.1.2/OrgChart.war
+ /opt/Sun/jdk1.6.0_14/bin/java jar /opt/Sun/jdk1.6.0_14/lib/jenkins
cli.jar s http://jenkins-host:8082/jenkins/ build XYZ_Platform
Calendar -p SVN_PATH=trunk -p STATIC_PATH=UIToolkit1.1.2
+ /opt/Sun/jdk1.6.0_14/bin/java jar /opt/Sun/jdk1.6.0_14/lib/jenkins
cli.jar -s http://jenkins-host:8082/jenkins/ build XYZ_Platform-Pay -p
SVN_PATH=trunk -p STATIC_PATH=UIToolkit1.1.2
+ /opt/Sun/jdk1.6.0_14/bin/java jar /opt/Sun/jdk1.6.0_14/lib/jenkins
cli.jar s http://jenkins-host:8082/jenkins/ build XYZ_Platform
OrgChart -p SVN_PATH=trunk -p STATIC_PATH=UIToolkit1.1.2
+ /opt/Sun/jdk1.6.0_14/bin/java jar /opt/Sun/jdk1.6.0_14/lib/jenkins
cli.jar s http://jenkins-host:8082/jenkins/ build XYZ_Platform
PolicyAck -s -p SVN_PATH=trunk -p STATIC_PATH=UIToolkit1.1.2
Sep 16, 2011 4:35:37 PM hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread run
SEVERE: I/O error in channel Chunked connection to http://jenkins-host:8082/jenkins/cli
java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:1093)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException
at java.io.ObjectInputStream
$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2498)
at
java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1273)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:
348)
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:1087)
Exception in thread "main" hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException:
hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: java.io.IOException:
Unexpected termination of the channel
at hudson.remoting.Request.call(Request.java:149)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:681)
at
hudson.remoting.RemoteInvocationHandler.invoke(RemoteInvocationHandler.java­:
158)
at $Proxy2.main(Unknown Source)
at hudson.cli.CLI.execute(CLI.java:171)
at hudson.cli.CLI._main(CLI.java:297)
at hudson.cli.CLI.main(CLI.java:216)
Caused by: hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException:
java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
at hudson.remoting.Request.abort(Request.java:273)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.terminate(Channel.java:732)
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:1117)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:1093)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException
at java.io.ObjectInputStream
$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2498)
at
java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1273)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:
348)
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:1087)
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
Notifying upstream projects of job completion
Finished: FAILURE