I tried setting up a slave: with the following config (Master / Slave Java Versions)
Master: java -version java version "1.6.0_24" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11.4) (6b24-1.11.4-1ubuntu0.12.04.1) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode) Slave: java -version java version "1.6.0_06" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_06-b02) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 10.0-b22, mixed mode) EXCEPTION: Installing chromedriver to /home/kahmed/tools/chromedriver ERROR: Unexpected error in launching a slave. This is probably a bug in Jenkins. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jenkinsci.plugins.chromedriver.DownloadableImpl.getType(DownloadableImpl.java:91) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.chromedriver.DownloadableImpl.select(DownloadableImpl.java:78) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.chromedriver.DownloadableImpl.resolve(DownloadableImpl.java:35) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.chromedriver.ComputerListenerImpl.process(ComputerListenerImpl.java:43) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.chromedriver.ComputerListenerImpl.preOnline(ComputerListenerImpl.java:34) at hudson.slaves.SlaveComputer.setChannel(SlaveComputer.java:370) at hudson.slaves.SlaveComputer.setChannel(SlaveComputer.java:317) at hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher.startSlave(SSHLauncher.java:454) at hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher.launch(SSHLauncher.java:293) at hudson.slaves.SlaveComputer$1.call(SlaveComputer.java:200) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) [10/12/12 10:21:47] [SSH] Connection closed. ERROR: Connection terminated java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:50) Caused by: java.io.EOFException at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2570) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1314) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:368) at hudson.remoting.Command.readFrom(Command.java:90) at hudson.remoting.ClassicCommandTransport.read(ClassicCommandTransport.java:59) at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:48) ERROR: [10/12/12 10:21:47] slave agent was terminated java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:50) Caused by: java.io.EOFException at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2570) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1314) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:368) at hudson.remoting.Command.readFrom(Command.java:90) at hudson.remoting.ClassicCommandTransport.read(ClassicCommandTransport.java:59) at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:48)