When attempting to build on a remote node running linux the following exception is thrown
Caused by: java.lang.LinkageError
at hudson.util.ProcessTree$UnixReflection.<clinit>(ProcessTree.java:618)
at hudson.util.ProcessTree$UnixProcess.kill(ProcessTree.java:552)
at hudson.util.ProcessTree$UnixProcess.killRecursively(ProcessTree.java:572)
at hudson.util.ProcessTree$Unix.killAll(ProcessTree.java:496)
at hudson.Launcher$RemoteLauncher$KillTask.call(Launcher.java:899)
at hudson.Launcher$RemoteLauncher$KillTask.call(Launcher.java:890)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:328)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: java.lang.UNIXProcess.destroyProcess(int)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethod(Class.java:2117)
at hudson.util.ProcessTree$UnixReflection.<clinit>(ProcessTree.java:607)
... 13 more

This seems to be due to java.lang.UNIXProcess.destroyProcess no longer existing in Java1.8