The build times out due to some software issue which prevents the build to make certain files that should be archived in the end.

There are two issues:
1) Even though the build is marked as failed its final status is ABORTED. That means the ball is grey instead of red. This might be caused by the second issue.

2) IOException while archiving files which due to a build error do not exist
00:21:07 Build timed out (after 120 minutes). Marking the build as failed.
00:21:07 Archiving artifacts
00:21:08 ERROR: Failed to archive artifacts: xxx/xxx/xxx/, xxx.exe
00:21:08 hudson.util.IOException2: Failed to copy x:\xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx/, xxx.exe to x:\xxx\jobs\xxx\builds\2011-07-22_22-21-07\archive
00:21:08 at hudson.FilePath$31.invoke(FilePath.java:1526)
00:21:08 at hudson.FilePath$31.invoke(FilePath.java:1493)
00:21:08 at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:758)
00:21:08 at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:740)
00:21:08 at hudson.FilePath.copyRecursiveTo(FilePath.java:1493)
00:21:08 at hudson.tasks.ArtifactArchiver.perform(ArtifactArchiver.java:117)
00:21:08 at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:19)
00:21:08 at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.perform(AbstractBuild.java:663)
00:21:08 at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:638)
00:21:08 at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:616)
00:21:08 at hudson.model.Build$RunnerImpl.post2(Build.java:161)
00:21:08 at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.post(AbstractBuild.java:585)
00:21:08 at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1399)
00:21:08 at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
00:21:08 at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
00:21:08 at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:145)
00:21:08 Caused by: Failed to copy x:\xxx\xxx\xxx\xxx\xxx\xxx\xxx.h to x:\xxx\jobs\xxx\builds\2011-07-22_22-21-07\archive\xxx\xxx\xxx\xxx\xxx\xxx.h due to java.nio.channels.ClosedByInterruptException
00:21:08 at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Copy.doFileOperations(Copy.java:839)
00:21:08 at hudson.FilePath$31$1CopyImpl.doFileOperations(FilePath.java:1509)
00:21:08 at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Copy.execute(Copy.java:508)
00:21:08 at hudson.FilePath$31.invoke(FilePath.java:1523)
00:21:08 ... 15 more
00:21:08 Caused by: java.nio.channels.ClosedByInterruptException
00:21:08 at java.nio.channels.spi.AbstractInterruptibleChannel.end(AbstractInterruptibleChannel.java:184)
00:21:08 at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.size(FileChannelImpl.java:304)
00:21:08 at org.apache.tools.ant.util.ResourceUtils.copyResource(ResourceUtils.java:466)
00:21:08 at org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils.copyFile(FileUtils.java:519)
00:21:08 at org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils.copyFile(FileUtils.java:481)
00:21:08 at org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils.copyFile(FileUtils.java:310)
00:21:08 at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Copy.doFileOperations(Copy.java:827)
00:21:08 ... 18 more
00:21:08 No emails were triggered.
00:21:08 Notifying upstream build xxx #70 of job completion
00:21:08 Project xxx still waiting for 1 builds to complete
00:21:08 Notifying upstream projects of job completion
00:21:08 Notifying upstream of completion: xxx #70
00:21:08 Finished: ABORTED