We found out that there is a problem when checking out from a repository using external definitions.
It works everywhere except the ia64 architecture.
The error output is:
ERROR: Failed to parse svn info for external
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/docs/docbook-support at
trunk/qa/services/hudson/hudson_workspace/workspace/jboss-aop-head-
testsuite/trunk//docbook-support
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNException: svn: '/home/hudson/hudson_workspace/workspace/jboss-aop-
head-testsuite/trunk/qa/services/hudson/hudson_workspace/workspace/jboss-aop-head-
testsuite/trunk' is not a working copy
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.error(SVNErrorManager.java:64)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNAdminAreaFactory.open(SVNAdminAreaFactory.java:149)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNWCAccess.doOpen(SVNWCAccess.java:355)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNWCAccess.open(SVNWCAccess.java:263)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNWCAccess.probeOpen(SVNWCAccess.java:290)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNWCAccess.probeOpen(SVNWCAccess.java:275)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNWCClient.crawlEntries(SVNWCClient.java:2904)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNWCClient.doInfo(SVNWCClient.java:2148)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNWCClient.doInfo(SVNWCClient.java:2524)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$BuildRevisionMapTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:697)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$BuildRevisionMapTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:667)
at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:1224)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:69)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:23)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:213)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)