while launching jenkins http://localhost:8080/jenkins , we are getting below error at UI: org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.ReactorException: java.lang.Error: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor.execute(Reactor.java:246) at jenkins.InitReactorRunner.run(InitReactorRunner.java:43) at jenkins.model.Jenkins.executeReactor(Jenkins.java:894) at jenkins.model.Jenkins.(Jenkins.java:796) at hudson.model.Hudson.(Hudson.java:81) at hudson.model.Hudson.(Hudson.java:77) at hudson.WebAppMain$2.run(WebAppMain.java:214) Caused by: java.lang.Error: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at hudson.init.InitializerFinder.invoke(InitializerFinder.java:124) at hudson.init.InitializerFinder$TaskImpl.run(InitializerFinder.java:184) at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor.runTask(Reactor.java:259) at jenkins.model.Jenkins$7.runTask(Jenkins.java:883) at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor$2.run(Reactor.java:187) at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor$Node.run(Reactor.java:94) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException 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 hudson.init.InitializerFinder.invoke(InitializerFinder.java:120) ... 8 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jenkinsci.main.modules.sshd.SSHD.init(SSHD.java:144) ... 13 more Error while restarting Jenkins via Unixbox: [root@fiespx123 xuser]# java -jar /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.23/webapps/jenkins/WEB-INF/jenkins-cli.jar -s http://localhost:8080/jenkins restart Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL:http://localhost:8080/jenkins/cli at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1459) at hudson.cli.FullDuplexHttpStream.(FullDuplexHttpStream.java:77) at hudson.cli.CLI.connectViaHttp(CLI.java:156) at hudson.cli.CLI.(CLI.java:140) at hudson.cli.CLIConnectionFactory.connect(CLIConnectionFactory.java:68) at hudson.cli.CLI._main(CLI.java:439) at hudson.cli.CLI.main(CLI.java:374)