I get the following exception from one of my matrix jobs when the ssh slave connects and attempts to checkout the svn repo.

hudson.util.IOException2: remote file operation failed: /ct/home/ct085/jenkins_parent/workspace/master_build at hudson.remoting.Channel@581ec7bf:Main_Stream_CT
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:835)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:821)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:743)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:685)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1218)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:586)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:475)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1434)
at hudson.matrix.MatrixBuild.run(MatrixBuild.java:248)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:239)
at hudson.model.OneOffExecutor.run(OneOffExecutor.java:66)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Remote call on Main_Stream_CT failed
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:655)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:828)
... 11 more
Caused by: java.lang.Error: Unable to load resource javax/servlet/http/LocalStrings.properties
at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.findResource(RemoteClassLoader.java:202)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResource(ClassLoader.java:978)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream(ClassLoader.java:1168)
at java.util.ResourceBundle$Control$1.run(ResourceBundle.java:2418)
at java.util.ResourceBundle$Control$1.run(ResourceBundle.java:2403)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.util.ResourceBundle$Control.newBundle(ResourceBundle.java:2402)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.loadBundle(ResourceBundle.java:1406)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.findBundle(ResourceBundle.java:1365)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.findBundle(ResourceBundle.java:1292)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.findBundle(ResourceBundle.java:1292)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(ResourceBundle.java:1234)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:715)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.<clinit>(HttpServlet.java:93)
at hudson.model.Node$Mode.<clinit>(Node.java:450)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at java.lang.Class.getEnumConstantsShared(Class.java:2942)
at java.lang.Class.getEnumConstants(Class.java:2920)
at jenkins.model.Jenkins.<clinit>(Jenkins.java:3845)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.createDefaultSVNOptions(SubversionSCM.java:844)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.createClientManager(SubversionSCM.java:834)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:766)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:753)
at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:2161)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:287)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /tmp/hudson-remoting6547308058951525956/javax/servlet/http/LocalStrings.properties (No such file or directory)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:179)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:131)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.makeResource(RemoteClassLoader.java:270)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.findResource(RemoteClassLoader.java:198)
... 35 more

It only seems to happen on one particular host. Other hosts run off the same Jenkins instance by different jobs are fine, but I don't know how to track down what is wrong.

The directory specified in this line "Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /tmp/hudson-remoting6547308058951525956/javax/servlet/http/LocalStrings.properties (No such file or directory)" does not exist... but I am not sure what actually causes that to be created. I have also seen it fail looking for Messages.properties instead, and once again it's the /tmp/hudson-remoting* directory itself that is missing.

Java 1.6 is being used on both master and slave. Both are Linux machines.