| Attempting to start Linux node results in failure: 08/16/18 17:47:31] [SSH] Copying latest slave.jar... hudson.util.IOException2: Could not copy slave.jar into '/build' on slave at hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher.copySlaveJar(SSHLauncher.java:1054) at hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher.access$300(SSHLauncher.java:137) at hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher$2.call(SSHLauncher.java:723) at hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher$2.call(SSHLauncher.java:706) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by: hudson.util.IOException2: Could not copy slave.jar to '/build/slave.jar' on slave at hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher.copySlaveJar(SSHLauncher.java:1049) ... 7 more Caused by: com.trilead.ssh2.SFTPException: Failure (SSH_FX_FAILURE: An error occurred, but no specific error code exists to describe the failure.) at com.trilead.ssh2.SFTPv3Client.openFile(SFTPv3Client.java:1201) at com.trilead.ssh2.SFTPv3Client.createFile(SFTPv3Client.java:1074) at com.trilead.ssh2.SFTPv3Client.createFile(SFTPv3Client.java:1055) at hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SFTPClient.writeToFile(SFTPClient.java:93) at hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher.copySlaveJar(SSHLauncher.java:1039) ... 7 more Turns out root cause is file system went read-only: mount: warning: /etc/mtab is not writable (e.g. read-only filesystem). It's possible that information reported by mount(8) is not up to date. For actual information about system mount points check the /proc/mounts file. Reporting error because of the response in the logs: (SSH_FX_FAILURE: An error occurred, but no specific error code exists to describe the failure.) This is a different failure condition to other documented bugs (JENKINS-42441, JENKINS-42856|https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-42856]), so worth mentioning and perhaps code can be fixed to provide more descriptive failure response |