I'm having the same issue.

During the testing I've done, I noticed that:

• the general configure-screen (of jenkins itself) works but the configure of the jobs is blocked by this issue
• the save-buttom becomes available (as soon as the screen isn't loading anymore but the overlay is still in front of the top of the page) but when I click it, I get "net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED"

sounds like it may be the same issue as JENKINS-19248

What version of Jenkins are you using?

Same here with Jenkins 1.529 on RHEL.

I upgraded to 1.530 and still the same. I installed a new Jenkins instance on a test machine and as long as I did not install any plug ins this issue was not present. The moment I installed plugins this issue started appearing.
At first I only had the plugins that come by default and the "Github pull request" plugin. With that configuration this issue did not appear.
This is the list of plugins I have installed (all of them via the "Manage Plugins" from "Manage Jenkins":

Ant Plugin 1.2
Build Failure Analyzer 1.5.0
Build Pipeline Plugin 1.4
build-metrics 1.0
conditional-buildstep 1.3.1
Credentials Plugin 1.7.6
Dashboard View 2.9.1
database 1.3
database-mysql 1.0
database-postgresql 1.0
External Monitor Job Type Plugin 1.2
Fingerprint Plugin 1.2
GitHub API Plugin 1.44
GitHub plugin 1.8
GitHub Pull Request Builder 1.9
HTML Publisher plugin 1.2
Hudson global-build-stats plugin 1.3
Javadoc Plugin 1.1
Jenkins Audit to Database Plugin 0.5
Jenkins Clone Workspace SCM Plug-in 0.6
Jenkins CVS Plug-in 2.9
Jenkins Doxygen Plug-in 0.14
Jenkins Email Extension Plugin 2.32
Jenkins GIT client plugin 1.1.2
Jenkins GIT plugin 1.5.0
Jenkins jQuery plugin 1.7.2-1
Jenkins Mailer Plugin 1.5
Jenkins Multiple SCMs plugin 0.2
Jenkins Parameterized Trigger plugin 2.20
Jenkins SSH Slaves plugin 1.2
Jenkins Subversion Plug-in 1.50
Jenkins Translation Assistance plugin 1.10
LDAP Plugin 1.6
Maven Integration plugin 1.530
PAM Authentication plugin 1.1
Publish Over SSH 1.10
Run Condition Plugin 0.10
SSH Credentials Plugin 1.4
Test stability history 1.0
Token Macro Plugin 1.8.1

I went through all the plugins, enabling and disabling them. After several tests I can say with some certainty that the Publish Over SSH plugin is causing the problem. As soon as I enable it, this problem comes back.

Given that this issue has happened with two different and unrelated plugins, it might be that the root cause is somewhere in the core.
My bet would be that the configuration freeze for projects is due to a plugin not providing what is expected and the loader not detecting that.

Given the versions mentioned in the comments, this is likely a duplicate of JENKINS-19457 which was fixed in 1.531.

For your information, all publish-over-ssh component type JENKINS issues related to the Publish Over SSH plugin have been transferred to Github: https://github.com/jenkinsci/publish-over-ssh-plugin/issues

Here is the direct link to this issue in Github: https://github.com/jenkinsci/publish-over-ssh-plugin/issues/186
And here is the link to a search for related issues: https://github.com/jenkinsci/publish-over-ssh-plugin/issues?q=%22JENKINS-19366%22

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