Problem occurs after upgrade  to 2.183 from 2.182 and is not present in 2.182.

Have a project configured with "Source Code Management"–>"Subversion" module. Project checks out a repository over https and has:

Local module directory: svn

Repository depth: infinity

Check-out Strategy: Always check out a fresh copy

Repository browser: (Auto)

"Console Output" has the following message:

 
Running as SYSTEM
Building remotely on deadlock in workspace /scratch/jenkins-slave/workspace/CheckoutJob
FATAL: Jenkins.instance is missing. Read the documentation of Jenkins.getInstanceOrNull to see what you are doing wrong.
Also: hudson.remoting.Channel$CallSiteStackTrace: Remote call to deadlock
at hudson.remoting.Channel.attachCallSiteStackTrace(Channel.java:1743)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest$ExceptionResponse.retrieve(UserRequest.java:357)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:957)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:1072)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:1061)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:928)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:864)
at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:504)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1208)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:574)
at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:499)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1818)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:429)
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Jenkins.instance is missing. Read the documentation of Jenkins.getInstanceOrNull to see what you are doing wrong.
at jenkins.model.Jenkins.get(Jenkins.java:769)
at hudson.model.Hudson.getInstance(Hudson.java:77)
at hudson.scm.SubversionWorkspaceSelector.syncWorkspaceFormatFromMaster(SubversionWorkspaceSelector.java:105)
at hudson.scm.SvnClientManager.<init>(SvnClientManager.java:31)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.createClientManager(SubversionSCM.java:1075)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:1002)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$CheckOutTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:979)
at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:3052)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:212)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:54)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:369)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
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Finished: FAILURE
 

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