Starting with release 1.293 Hudson fails to start:

SEVERE: Failed to initialize Hudson
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: hudson.model.PeriodicWork.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V
at hudson.plugins.disk_usage.DiskUsageThread.<init>(DiskUsageThread.java:26)
at hudson.plugins.disk_usage.DiskUsagePlugin.<init>(DiskUsagePlugin.java:30)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
at hudson.ClassicPluginStrategy.load(ClassicPluginStrategy.java:190)
at hudson.PluginManager.<init>(PluginManager.java:141)
at hudson.model.Hudson.<init>(Hudson.java:513)
at hudson.WebAppMain$2.run(WebAppMain.java:191)
Exception in thread "hudson initialization thread" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
hudson.model.PeriodicWork.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V
at hudson.plugins.disk_usage.DiskUsageThread.<init>(DiskUsageThread.java:26)
at hudson.plugins.disk_usage.DiskUsagePlugin.<init>(DiskUsagePlugin.java:30)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
at hudson.ClassicPluginStrategy.load(ClassicPluginStrategy.java:190)
at hudson.PluginManager.<init>(PluginManager.java:141)
at hudson.model.Hudson.<init>(Hudson.java:513)
at hudson.WebAppMain$2.run(WebAppMain.java:191)

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this is the same for
java -jar hudson as well for tomcat 5.5.27

> uname -a
SunOS sun1 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000

> java -version
java version "1.5.0_07" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build
1.5.0_07-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.5.0_07-b03, mixed mode)