I have a matrix-build project. The project is tied to 3 slaves (Win XP, Win 7, Linux-Ubuntu) on which the project must be build. If I abort the build on one of those slaves the consecutive builds on the same slave fail with a java.lang.StackOverflowError right after checkout from the source-code management system (MKS). Hereby it does not seem to matter how the previous build was aborted. I tested the following causes: manual abortion of build-process, sudden connection breakdown between slave and master.

Here is the log of a consecutive build that followed an aborted one (some info omitted by [...]):

Change Log: [...]
Build Log: [...]
Preparing to execute si projectinfo for [...]
Preparing to execute si viewproject for [...]
Checkout directory is D:\CI\hudson\workspace[...]
A clean copy is requested; deleting contents of D:\CI\hudson\workspace[...]
Populating clean workspace...
Successfully checked out 2490 files!
Saving current Integrity Project configuration...
FATAL: null
java.lang.StackOverflowError
at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor459.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeWriteObject(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(Unknown Source)
[...]

The stack trace continues "indefinitely".

Similarly I got the following for a different project where the previous build was aborted as well:

Change Log: [...]
Build Log: [...]
Preparing to execute si projectinfo for [...]
Preparing to execute si viewproject for [...]
Checkout directory is D:\CI\hudson\workspace[...]
A clean copy is requested; deleting contents of D:\CI\hudson\workspace[...]
Populating clean workspace...
Successfully checked out 628 files!
Saving current Integrity Project configuration...
API Response for si viewproject successfully saved to file!
Successfully saved current Integrity Project configuration to C:\CI\hudson\jobs[...]
Writing build change log...
Change log successfully generated: C:\CI\hudson\jobs[...]
FATAL: null
java.lang.StackOverflowError
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readInt(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readHandle(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(Unknown Source)
[...]

The stack trace continues "indefinitely" as well.