This is with hudson version 1.143. When a test times out in junit, it produces
an empty test xml file. Earlier, I think hudson used to ignore this which was
also not right but currently it marks the whole build as failure with following
error. I think it should recognize this as bad/failing test.

FATAL: remote file operation failed
hudson.util.IOException2: remote file operation failed
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:276)
at hudson.tasks.junit.JUnitResultArchiver.perform(JUnitResultArchiver.java:52)
at hudson.model.Build$RunnerImpl.post2(Build.java:138)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.post(AbstractBuild.java:243)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:595)
at hudson.model.Build.run(Build.java:103)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:66)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:62)

Caused by: hudson.util.IOException2: Failed to read
/home/test_hudson/hudson_workspace/workspace/test_junit/reports/blank-junit.xml
at hudson.tasks.junit.TestResult.parse(TestResult.java:119)
at hudson.tasks.junit.TestResult.parse(TestResult.java:83)
at hudson.tasks.junit.TestResult.<init>(TestResult.java:66)
at hudson.tasks.junit.JUnitResultArchiver$1.invoke(JUnitResultArchiver.java:67)
at hudson.tasks.junit.JUnitResultArchiver$1.invoke(JUnitResultArchiver.java:52)
at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:997)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:69)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:23)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:178)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:650)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:675)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Caused by: org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line -1 of document : Premature
end of file. Nested exception: Premature end of file.
at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:482)
at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:264)
at hudson.tasks.junit.SuiteResult.<init>(SuiteResult.java:38)
at hudson.tasks.junit.TestResult.parse(TestResult.java:111)

Regards,
Prabhat