I recently upgrade to 1.631, and rebooted/ran successfully. I have also had issues with Extended Mailer Plugin emailing when it shouldn't, so I tried disabling it in the plugin list.
SEVERE: Failed Loading global config
java.io.IOException: Unable to read /var/lib/jenkins/config.xml
at hudson.XmlFile.unmarshal(XmlFile.java:167)
at jenkins.model.Jenkins$16.run(Jenkins.java:2663)
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.TaskGraphBuilder$TaskImpl.run(TaskGraphBuilder.java:169)
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor.runTask(Reactor.java:282)
at jenkins.model.Jenkins$7.runTask(Jenkins.java:899)
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor$2.run(Reactor.java:210)
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor$Node.run(Reactor.java:117)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: hudson/tasks/Mailer$UserProperty
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredFields(Class.java:2499)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields(Class.java:1811)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.AnnotationMapper.processTypes(AnnotationMapper.java:216)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.AnnotationMapper.processAnnotations(AnnotationMapper.java:182)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.AnnotationMapper.defaultImplementationOf(AnnotationMapper.java:141)
at hudson.util.xstream.MapperDelegate.defaultImplementationOf(MapperDelegate.java:59)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.defaultImplementationOf(MapperWrapper.java:46)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:54)
at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.unmarshalField(RobustReflectionConverter.java:352)
at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.doUnmarshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:290)
at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.unmarshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:229)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convert(TreeUnmarshaller.java:72)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.convert(AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.java:65)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:66)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:50)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.start(TreeUnmarshaller.java:134)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.unmarshal(AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.java:32)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:1189)
at hudson.util.XStream2.unmarshal(XStream2.java:113)
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:1173)
at hudson.XmlFile.unmarshal(XmlFile.java:163)
... 9 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: hudson.tasks.Mailer$UserProperty
at jenkins.util.AntClassLoader.findClassInComponents(AntClassLoader.java:1376)
at jenkins.util.AntClassLoader.findClass(AntClassLoader.java:1326)
at jenkins.util.AntClassLoader.loadClass(AntClassLoader.java:1079)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
... 31 more
The config file is present, and should be working.