Installation blocks forever on:
Unpacking http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.0-milestone-9-bin.zip to /home/tsuckow/.jenkins_slave/tools/Gradle_9 on Conure

I rebooted the slave thinking it might help which resulted in this stack trace:

FATAL: hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
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.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:777)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:770)
at hudson.FilePath.unzipFrom(FilePath.java:467)
at hudson.FilePath.installIfNecessaryFrom(FilePath.java:667)
at hudson.tools.ZipExtractionInstaller.performInstallation(ZipExtractionInstaller.java:82)
at hudson.tools.InstallerTranslator.getToolHome(InstallerTranslator.java:61)
at hudson.tools.ToolLocationNodeProperty.getToolHome(ToolLocationNodeProperty.java:107)
at hudson.tools.ToolInstallation.translateFor(ToolInstallation.java:150)
at hudson.plugins.gradle.GradleInstallation.forNode(GradleInstallation.java:101)
at hudson.plugins.gradle.Gradle.performTask(Gradle.java:146)
at hudson.plugins.gradle.Gradle.perform(Gradle.java:97)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:19)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.perform(AbstractBuild.java:703)
at hudson.model.Build$RunnerImpl.build(Build.java:178)
at hudson.model.Build$RunnerImpl.doRun(Build.java:139)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:473)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1410)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:238)
Caused by: hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
at hudson.remoting.Request.abort(Request.java:273)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.terminate(Channel.javaa:732)
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:1157)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:1133)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2570)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1314)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:368)
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:1127)