Recently discovered a StackOverflowError originating from the HP ALM plugin:
2019-12-30 02:31:50.046+0000 [id=42] WARNING o.j.p.w.cps.CpsFlowExecution#notifyListeners
java.lang.StackOverflowError
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.getBooleanAttributes0(Native Method)
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.getBooleanAttributes(UnixFileSystem.java:242)
at java.io.File.exists(File.java:819)
[...]
at com.microfocus.application.automation.tools.octane.events.WorkflowListenerOctaneImpl.onNewHead(WorkflowListenerOctaneImpl.java:79)
[...]
at hudson.model.Job.getEstimatedDurationCandidates(Job.java:1045)
at hudson.model.Job.getEstimatedDuration(Job.java:1059)
at hudson.model.Run.getEstimatedDuration(Run.java:2450)
at com.microfocus.application.automation.tools.octane.events.WorkflowListenerOctaneImpl.sendPipelineStartedEvent(WorkflowListenerOctaneImpl.java:92)
at com.microfocus.application.automation.tools.octane.events.WorkflowListenerOctaneImpl.onNewHead(WorkflowListenerOctaneImpl.java:70)
[...]
at com.microfocus.application.automation.tools.octane.events.WorkflowListenerOctaneImpl.sendPipelineStartedEvent(WorkflowListenerOctaneImpl.java:92)
at com.microfocus.application.automation.tools.octane.events.WorkflowListenerOctaneImpl.onNewHead(WorkflowListenerOctaneImpl.java:70)
[...]
I am not sure in what scenario this happens exactly. It did happen on startup in the instance I was troubleshooting and caused havoc later on.