Out hudson master installation runs successfully on a CentOS vmware instance and
performs its very good jobs also on almost our configured agents (AIX, SunOS,
Win32, ..) We are facing a problem with a single agent running on a AMD64
machine running Linux OpenSuse 10.0.
Almost every build the agent dies. Here follows the last failure:

[exec] cd /home/dstk110/build/hudson/workspace/DSTK-Linux64/dstk/AddOn/curl;
CC="gcc" CFLAGS=" -DDSTK_64BIT -DLINUX -DL_ENDIAN -DUSE_SBUF -fPIC -DPTHREADS
-DSMIME_ENV='"dstk.ini"' -DCRYPTOKI_ENV='"dstk.ini"' -DCSM_ENV='"dstk.ini"'
-DMQPPS_ENV='"IDS_CONFIG_FILE"'
-I/home/dstk110/build/hudson/workspace/DSTK-Linux64/dstk/AddOn/output/Linux/64/gcc/include
-DNDEBUG -DNO_ERR -DNO_BIO -DNO_LHASH -DNO_BUFFER -DUSE_SBUF -DVDADER_RULES
-fPIC" ./configure
--prefix=/home/dstk110/build/hudson/workspace/DSTK-Linux64/dstk/AddOn/output/Linux/64/gcc
--with-ssl=/home/dstk110/build/hudson/workspace/DSTK-Linux64/dstk/AddOn/output/Linux/64/gcc
--without-libidn
FATAL: command execution failed
hudson.util.IOException2: Failed to join the process
at hudson.Proc$RemoteProc.join(Proc.java:220)
at hudson.tasks.Ant.perform(Ant.java:171)
at hudson.model.Build$RunnerImpl.build(Build.java:156)
at hudson.model.Build$RunnerImpl.doRun(Build.java:124)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:192)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:656)
at hudson.model.Build.run(Build.java:102)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:70)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:65)
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException:
hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: java.io.EOFException
at hudson.remoting.Request$1.get(Request.java:152)
at hudson.remoting.Request$1.get(Request.java:121)
at hudson.remoting.FutureAdapter.get(FutureAdapter.java:32)
at hudson.Proc$RemoteProc.join(Proc.java:212)
... 8 more
Caused by: hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: java.io.EOFException
at hudson.remoting.Request.abort(Request.java:187)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.terminate(Channel.java:437)
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:593)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException
at
java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2498)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1273)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:348)
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:574)
FATAL: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
at hudson.tasks.ArtifactArchiver.perform(ArtifactArchiver.java:70)
at hudson.model.Build$RunnerImpl.performAllBuildStep(Build.java:150)
at hudson.model.Build$RunnerImpl.post2(Build.java:137)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.post(AbstractBuild.java:254)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:674)
at hudson.model.Build.run(Build.java:102)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:70)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:65)

Having a look to the different build failures, we always see a regular pattern:

Caused by: java.io.EOFException
at
java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2498)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1273)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:348)
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:574)

Thanks in advance,
Fulvio