Copy To Slave plugin error

[ekambaram varathan]

I am using jenkins 2.361.2 version and i have "Copy to Slave" plugin version 1.4.4 .

Currently i have problem with copy files slave host. my jenkins job always fails with below error:

Building remotely on slave_linux01 in workspace /var/jenkins/slave/workspace/Copy_to_Slave
[copy-to-slave] Copying 'data/**,jobs/configuration', excluding nothing, from 'file:/var/jenkins/' on the master to 'file:/var/jenkins/slave/workspace/Copy_to_Slave/' on 'slave_linux01'.
FATAL: hudson/org/apache/tools/tar/TarInputStream
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: hudson.org.apache.tools.tar.TarInputStream
    at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:476)
    at jenkins.util.URLClassLoader2.findClass(URLClassLoader2.java:35)
    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:589)
    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522)
Caused: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: hudson/org/apache/tools/tar/TarInputStream
    at com.michelin.cio.hudson.plugins.copytoslave.CopyToSlaveBuildWrapper.setUp(CopyToSlaveBuildWrapper.java:133)
    at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.doRun(Build.java:158)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:524)
    at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1899)
    at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:44)
    at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:107)
    at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:449)
Finished: FAILURE

Please let me know what would be the cause for this error.

Thanks

[Daniel Beck]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 1:55 PM ekambaram varathan <ekam...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am using jenkins 2.361.2 version and i have "Copy to Slave" plugin version 1.4.4 .

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FATAL: hudson/org/apache/tools/tar/TarInputStream
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: hudson.org.apache.tools.tar.TarInputStream…

Please let me know what would be the cause for this error.

The plugin is incompatible with Jenkins 2.318 and newer and hasn't been distributed by the Jenkins project since early 2018. I recommend you look into alternative solutions for what you're currently using it for.