Maven2-based build fails with "Cannot lookup required component" when run on slave

Maven2-based build fails with "Cannot lookup required component" when run on slave
in Hudson ver. 1.306 - in 1.304 it seemed to be OK.

The message is:

Parsing POMs
ERROR: Failed to parse POMs
org.apache.maven.embedder.MavenEmbedderException: Cannot lookup required component.
at hudson.maven.MavenEmbedder.start(MavenEmbedder.java:722)
at hudson.maven.MavenUtil.createEmbedder(MavenUtil.java:116)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$PomParser.invoke(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:728)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$PomParser.invoke(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:676)
at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:1638)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:103)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:47)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:236)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$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)
Caused by:
org.codehaus.plexus.component.repository.exception.ComponentLookupException:
Unable to lookup component 'org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutor', it
could not be started
at
org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:339)
at org.codehaus.plexus.embed.Embedder.lookup(Embedder.java:78)
at hudson.maven.MavenEmbedder.start(MavenEmbedder.java:700)
... 13 more
Caused by:
org.codehaus.plexus.component.repository.exception.ComponentLifecycleException:
Error starting component
at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.AbstractComponentManager.startComponentLifecycle(AbstractComponentManager.java:109)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.AbstractComponentManager.createComponentInstance(AbstractComponentManager.java:95)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.ClassicSingletonComponentManager.getComponent(ClassicSingletonComponentManager.java:92)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:331)
... 15 more
Caused by:
org.codehaus.plexus.personality.plexus.lifecycle.phase.PhaseExecutionException:
Error composing component
at
org.codehaus.plexus.personality.plexus.lifecycle.phase.CompositionPhase.execute(CompositionPhase.java:33)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.lifecycle.AbstractLifecycleHandler.start(AbstractLifecycleHandler.java:101)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.AbstractComponentManager.startComponentLifecycle(AbstractComponentManager.java:105)
... 18 more
Caused by: org.codehaus.plexus.component.composition.CompositionException:
Component composition failed. No field of type: 'interface
org.apache.maven.project.MavenProjectBuilder' exists in class
'org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutorInterceptor'. Component: role:
'org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutor', implementation:
'org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutorInterceptor'
at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.composition.FieldComponentComposer.getFieldByType(FieldComponentComposer.java:305)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.composition.FieldComponentComposer.findMatchingField(FieldComponentComposer.java:204)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.composition.FieldComponentComposer.assembleComponent(FieldComponentComposer.java:62)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.composition.DefaultComponentComposerManager.assembleComponent(DefaultComponentComposerManager.java:68)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.composeComponent(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:1486)
at
org.codehaus.plexus.personality.plexus.lifecycle.phase.CompositionPhase.execute(CompositionPhase.java:29)
... 20 more
Finished: FAILURE

mvn -version
Maven version: 2.0.10
Java version: 1.6.0_13
OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.21-2952xen" arch: "amd64" Family: "unix"