Ran into this as well. Seems unrelated to the upgrade. It's simply that the queue that's persisted when the Jenkins service shuts down causes a deadlock when Jenkins re-initializes. The quick fix for me was to rename the file (this is on Ubuntu) from queue.xml into something like queue.xml.keep (or you could just remove it altogether).
I've had this happen both at Jenkins upgrades, and simply restarting Jenkins after plugin updates, since 1.542 or so. Once in this deadlock, downgrading as far as 1.540 didn't do the trick. Ended up upgrading back to 1.544 and removing queue.xml before restarting.
Ran into this as well. Seems unrelated to the upgrade. It's simply that the queue that's persisted when the Jenkins service shuts down causes a deadlock when Jenkins re-initializes. The quick fix for me was to rename the file (this is on Ubuntu) from queue.xml into something like queue.xml.keep (or you could just remove it altogether).
I've had this happen both at Jenkins upgrades, and simply restarting Jenkins after plugin updates, since 1.542 or so. Once in this deadlock, downgrading as far as 1.540 didn't do the trick. Ended up upgrading back to 1.544 and removing queue.xml before restarting.