java.io.IOException: Remote call on precise39 failed

[Dan Prince]

Seeing the following doc job failures on some jobs last week:

2014-01-09 16:54:41.162 | [EnvInject] - Loading node environment variables.
2014-01-09 16:54:41.228 | Building remotely on precise39 in workspace /home/jenkins/workspace/gate-nova-docs
2014-01-09 16:54:41.292 | FATAL: command execution failed
2014-01-09 16:54:41.293 | java.io.IOException: Remote call on precise39 failed
2014-01-09 16:54:41.293 | at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:722)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.293 | at hudson.Launcher$RemoteLauncher.launch(Launcher.java:862)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.293 | at hudson.Launcher$ProcStarter.start(Launcher.java:353)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.293 | at hudson.Launcher$ProcStarter.join(Launcher.java:360)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.294 | at hudson.tasks.CommandInterpreter.perform(CommandInterpreter.java:91)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.294 | at hudson.tasks.CommandInterpreter.perform(CommandInterpreter.java:60)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.294 | at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:19)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.294 | at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:804)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.294 | at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.build(Build.java:199)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.294 | at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.doRun(Build.java:160)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.295 | at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:586)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.295 | at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1593)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.295 | at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.295 | at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.295 | at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:247)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.295 | Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class jenkins.model.Jenkins$MasterComputer
2014-01-09 16:54:41.296 | at hudson.Launcher$LocalLauncher.<init>(Launcher.java:755)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.296 | at hudson.Launcher$RemoteLaunchCallable.call(Launcher.java:991)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.296 | at hudson.Launcher$RemoteLaunchCallable.call(Launcher.java:965)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.296 | at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.296 | at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.296 | at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:326)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.297 | at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.297 | at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.297 | at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.297 | at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.297 | at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.297 | at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)
2014-01-09 16:54:41.309 | Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure