Fred G added a comment - 2013-07-15 12:33 Sorry, my bad. This is not really a duplicate, because it refers to CiFS configuration not SSH. It could still be a related issue though.

Fred G added a comment - 2013-07-15 12:35 Same problem here. Environment: Jenkins version 1.518, Publish Over CiFS version 0.2, Jenkins Server: Win 2003 Server Seems like the configuration is not read correctly from the XML file: 15.07.2013 13:48:51 hudson.model.Descriptor load WARNUNG: Failed to load f:\Jenkins\jenkins.plugins.publish_over_cifs.CifsPublisherPlugin.xml hudson.util.IOException2: Unable to read f:\Jenkins\jenkins.plugins.publish_over_cifs.CifsPublisherPlugin.xml at hudson.XmlFile.unmarshal(XmlFile.java:170) at hudson.model.Descriptor.load(Descriptor.java:806) at jenkins.plugins.publish_over.BPPluginDescriptor.<init>(BPPluginDescriptor.java:56) at jenkins.plugins.publish_over_cifs.CifsPublisherPlugin$Descriptor.<init>(CifsPublisherPlugin.java:100) at jenkins.plugins.publish_over_cifs.CifsPublisherPlugin$Descriptor$$FastClassByGuice$$9d63b4dd.newInstance(<generated>) at com.google.inject.internal.cglib.reflect.$FastConstructor.newInstance(FastConstructor.java:40) at com.google.inject.internal.DefaultConstructionProxyFactory$1.newInstance(DefaultConstructionProxyFactory.java:61) at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.provision(ConstructorInjector.java:108) at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.construct(ConstructorInjector.java:87) at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorBindingImpl$Factory.get(ConstructorBindingImpl.java:259) at com.google.inject.internal.ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter$1.call(ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter.java:46) at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl.callInContext(InjectorImpl.java:1018) at com.google.inject.internal.ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter.get(ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter.java:40) at com.google.inject.Scopes$1$1.get(Scopes.java:59) at hudson.ExtensionFinder$GuiceFinder$FaultTolerantScope$1.get(ExtensionFinder.java:429) at com.google.inject.internal.InternalFactoryToProviderAdapter.get(InternalFactoryToProviderAdapter.java:41) at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl$3$1.call(InjectorImpl.java:965) at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl.callInContext(InjectorImpl.java:1011) at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl$3.get(InjectorImpl.java:961) at hudson.ExtensionFinder$GuiceFinder._find(ExtensionFinder.java:391) at hudson.ExtensionFinder$GuiceFinder.find(ExtensionFinder.java:382) at hudson.ExtensionFinder._find(ExtensionFinder.java:151) at hudson.ClassicPluginStrategy.findComponents(ClassicPluginStrategy.java:318) at hudson.ExtensionList.load(ExtensionList.java:295) at hudson.ExtensionList.ensureLoaded(ExtensionList.java:248) at hudson.ExtensionList.iterator(ExtensionList.java:138) at jenkins.model.Jenkins.getDescriptorByType(Jenkins.java:1181) at hudson.plugins.copyartifact.BuildSelectorParameter.initAliases(BuildSelectorParameter.java:100) at hudson.plugins.copyartifact.CopyArtifactPlugin.postInitialize(CopyArtifactPlugin.java:35) at hudson.PluginManager$2$1$2.run(PluginManager.java:353) at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.TaskGraphBuilder$TaskImpl.run(TaskGraphBuilder.java:146) at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor.runTask(Reactor.java:259) at jenkins.model.Jenkins$7.runTask(Jenkins.java:893) at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor$2.run(Reactor.java:187) at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor$Node.run(Reactor.java:94) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang. Thread .run(Unknown Source) Caused by: com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.ConversionException: object is not an instance of declaring class : object is not an instance of declaring class ---- Debugging information ---- message : object is not an instance of declaring class cause-exception : java.lang.IllegalArgumentException cause-message : object is not an instance of declaring class class : jenkins.plugins.publish_over_cifs.CifsHostConfiguration required-type : jenkins.plugins.publish_over_cifs.CifsHostConfiguration converter-type : hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter path : /jenkins.plugins.publish_over_cifs.CifsPublisherPlugin$Descriptor/hostConfigurations/jenkins.plugins.publish_over_cifs.CifsHostConfiguration line number : 14 class[ 1] : hudson.util.CopyOnWriteList converter-type[1] : hudson.util.XStream2$AssociatedConverterImpl class[ 2] : jenkins.plugins.publish_over_cifs.CifsPublisherPlugin$Descriptor version : null ------------------------------- at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convert(TreeUnmarshaller.java:79) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.convert(AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.java:65) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:66) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:50) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.collections.AbstractCollectionConverter.readItem(AbstractCollectionConverter.java:71) at hudson.util.CopyOnWriteList$ConverterImpl.unmarshal(CopyOnWriteList.java:193) at hudson.util.CopyOnWriteList$ConverterImpl.unmarshal(CopyOnWriteList.java:172) at hudson.util.XStream2$AssociatedConverterImpl.unmarshal(XStream2.java:337) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convert(TreeUnmarshaller.java:72) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.convert(AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.java:65) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:66) at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.unmarshalField(RobustReflectionConverter.java:333) at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.doUnmarshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:275) at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.unmarshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:222) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convert(TreeUnmarshaller.java:72) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.convert(AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.java:65) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:66) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:50) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.start(TreeUnmarshaller.java:134) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.unmarshal(AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.java:32) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:1061) at hudson.util.XStream2.unmarshal(XStream2.java:109) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:1045) at hudson.XmlFile.unmarshal(XmlFile.java:166) ... 37 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: object is not an instance of declaring class at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.SerializationMethodInvoker.callReadResolve(SerializationMethodInvoker.java:66) at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.unmarshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:223) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convert(TreeUnmarshaller.java:72) ... 60 more