When checking from SVN repository we see errors like this one regardless of the OS system of the slaves. We have seen in both on older and newer versions of Windows, as well as OSX and some Unix distributions. 

Jun 11, 2018 11:00:50 AM hudson.remoting.UserRequest perform
WARNING: LinkageError while performing UserRequest:hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask@4a33b358
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class hudson.scm.SubversionSCM
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:1003)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:980)
at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:2879)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:212)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:54)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:369)
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:745)