The Jenkins server version is 1.480.1

The Jenkins master doesn't belong to the same timezone as the slave (The slave is 8 Hours behind)

Slave Launch method: Launch slave agents on Unix machines via SSH

A job run on this slave immediately failed.
The corresponding output is:

Started by user Dominique Ledit
Building remotely on vm-hou-bldrh53cFATAL: channel is already closed
hudson.remoting.ChannelClosedException: channel is already closed
at hudson.remoting.Channel.send(Channel.java:493)
at hudson.remoting.Request.call(Request.java:129)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:664)
at hudson.EnvVars.getRemote(EnvVars.java:202)
at hudson.model.Computer.getEnvironment(Computer.java:844)
at jenkins.model.CoreEnvironmentContributor.buildEnvironmentFor(CoreEnvironmentContributor.java:28)
at hudson.model.Run.getEnvironment(Run.java:1952)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild.getEnvironment(AbstractBuild.java:843)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.decideWorkspace(AbstractBuild.java:462)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run
(AbstractBuild.java:482)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1502)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:236)
Caused by: java.io.IOException
at hudson.remoting.Channel.close(Channel.java:902)
at hudson.slaves.ChannelPinger$1.onDead(ChannelPinger.java:110)
at hudson.remoting.PingThread.ping(PingThread.java:120)
at hudson.remoting.PingThread.run(PingThread.java:81)
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Ping started on 1361148569659 hasn't completed at 1361148809659
... 2 more