The master is OSX 10.8.3 running Jenkins 1.511, and the slave is Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Lucid Lynx. When trying to publish HTML reports, it freezes permanently. After killing the job the following stack trace is produced:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 29 minutes 48 seconds
[htmlpublisher] Archiving HTML reports...
[htmlpublisher] Archiving at BUILD level /home/builder/jenkins/workspace/sre-build-test-linux/branches/mingus/vcloud/sonic/.build/Debug/coverage_report to /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/jobs/sre-build-test-linux/builds/2013-08-01_17-04-54/htmlreports/Test_Coverage
FATAL: HTML Publisher failure
hudson.util.IOException2: hudson.util.IOException2: Failed to extract /home/builder/jenkins/workspace/sre-build-test-linux/branches/mingus/vcloud/sonic/.build/Debug/coverage_report/*/
at hudson.FilePath.readFromTar(FilePath.java:2014)
at hudson.FilePath.copyRecursiveTo(FilePath.java:1926)
at hudson.FilePath.copyRecursiveTo(FilePath.java:1831)
at htmlpublisher.HtmlPublisher.perform(HtmlPublisher.java:212)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:19)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:802)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:774)
at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.post2(Build.java:183)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.post(AbstractBuild.java:724)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1600)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:237)
Caused by: java.io.IOException
at hudson.remoting.FastPipedInputStream.read(FastPipedInputStream.java:175)
at hudson.util.HeadBufferingStream.read(HeadBufferingStream.java:61)
at java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream.fill(InflaterInputStream.java:221)
at java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream.read(InflaterInputStream.java:141)
at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.read(GZIPInputStream.java:90)
at org.apache.tools.tar.TarBuffer.readBlock(TarBuffer.java:257)
at org.apache.tools.tar.TarBuffer.readRecord(TarBuffer.java:223)
at hudson.org.apache.tools.tar.TarInputStream.getNextEntry(TarInputStream.java:228)
at hudson.FilePath.readFromTar(FilePath.java:1992)
... 12 more

at hudson.FilePath.copyRecursiveTo(FilePath.java:1933)
at hudson.FilePath.copyRecursiveTo(FilePath.java:1831)
at htmlpublisher.HtmlPublisher.perform(HtmlPublisher.java:212)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:19)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:802)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:774)
at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.post2(Build.java:183)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.post(AbstractBuild.java:724)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1600)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:237)
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
at hudson.remoting.Request$1.get(Request.java:278)
at hudson.remoting.Request$1.get(Request.java:210)
at hudson.remoting.FutureAdapter.get(FutureAdapter.java:59)
at hudson.FilePath.copyRecursiveTo(FilePath.java:1929)
... 11 more
Caused by: hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
at hudson.remoting.Request.abort(Request.java:299)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.terminate(Channel.java:732)
at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:69)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:50)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2576)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1295)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:349)
at hudson.remoting.Command.readFrom(Command.java:92)
at hudson.remoting.ClassicCommandTransport.read(ClassicCommandTransport.java:59)
at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:48)
Build step 'Publish HTML reports' changed build result to FAILURE