Jenkins "Pipe is already closed" when copy artifacts to slave - jenkins

Question

I am trying co setup an Linux slave for Jenkins and it seems that copyartifacts plugin fails to copy artifacts from master (Linux) to slave. It copies some of the files but always fails at last one with exception:
ERROR: Failed to copy artifacts from metabuilds-build with filter: **
java.io.IOException: Pipe is already closed
at hudson.remoting.PipeWindow.checkDeath(PipeWindow.java:83)
at hudson.remoting.PipeWindow$Real.get(PipeWindow.java:165)
at hudson.remoting.ProxyOutputStream._write(ProxyOutputStream.java:118)
at hudson.remoting.ProxyOutputStream.write(ProxyOutputStream.java:103)
at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java:65)
at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.write(BufferedOutputStream.java:109)
at java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.deflate(DeflaterOutputStream.java:161)
at java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.write(DeflaterOutputStream.java:118)
at java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream.write(GZIPOutputStream.java:72)
at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.write(BufferedOutputStream.java:105)
at org.apache.tools.tar.TarBuffer.writeBlock(TarBuffer.java:410)
at org.apache.tools.tar.TarBuffer.writeRecord(TarBuffer.java:351)
at hudson.org.apache.tools.tar.TarOutputStream.writeEOFRecord(TarOutputStream.java:356)
at hudson.org.apache.tools.tar.TarOutputStream.finish(TarOutputStream.java:137)
at hudson.org.apache.tools.tar.TarOutputStream.close(TarOutputStream.java:149)
at hudson.util.io.TarArchiver.close(TarArchiver.java:119)
at hudson.FilePath.writeToTar(FilePath.java:1619)
at hudson.FilePath.copyRecursiveTo(FilePath.java:1544)
at hudson.FilePath.copyRecursiveTo(FilePath.java:1473)
at hudson.plugins.copyartifact.FilePathCopyMethod.copyAll(FilePathCopyMethod.java:51)
at hudson.plugins.copyartifact.CopyArtifact.perform(CopyArtifact.java:225)
at hudson.plugins.copyartifact.CopyArtifact.perform(CopyArtifact.java:199)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:19)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.perform(AbstractBuild.java:662)
at hudson.model.Build$RunnerImpl.build(Build.java:177)
at hudson.model.Build$RunnerImpl.doRun(Build.java:139)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:429)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1374)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:145)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Pipe is already closed
at hudson.remoting.FastPipedOutputStream.write(FastPipedOutputStream.java:147)
at hudson.remoting.FastPipedOutputStream.write(FastPipedOutputStream.java:131)
at hudson.remoting.ProxyOutputStream$Chunk$1.run(ProxyOutputStream.java:185)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: hudson.remoting.FastPipedInputStream$ClosedBy: The pipe was closed at...
at hudson.remoting.FastPipedInputStream.close(FastPipedInputStream.java:112)
at hudson.FilePath$32.invoke(FilePath.java:1540)
at hudson.FilePath$32.invoke(FilePath.java:1534)
at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:1979)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:270)
... 6 more
Any ideas? We have Jenkins 1.413 and copyartifacts plugin of version 1.17.

Answer 1

It turned out that I had inapriopriate permissions in the slave directory. In case of anyone needed I will write exactly what I have done:
At the first time of copy artifacts invocation the error inspired by JENKINS-9540 I updated the copyartifacts plugin to version 1.17 - did not helped.
After that I tried to pass the build further so I disabled the copyartifacts step and manually uploaded the content to the slave (as root! that introduced bad file permissions for jenkins user)
When the build succeeded I returned to the main error and updated the plugin to version 1.20. This did not helped, but decided th check if the permissions are OK and noticed that the files I was trying to replace was owned by root.
After a little chown and chgrp the problem was fixed.
SUMMARY: Check the actual file/directory permissions when such problem occurs first and after that try newer version of the plugin.

Answer 2

Seems like an issue with the plugin. You need to upgrade to a newer version or to the latest version depending on whether the latest plugin version is compatible with the Jenkins version you have. Please check the last two latest comment in the link: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-9540