Jenkins slave on Windows XP not starting

Question

I had this all working, what changed I am baffled.

I have a Jenkins slave running on XP and when I go to start launch the slave, I get

Checking if Java exists
No Java found. Downloading JDK
Installing JDK
ERROR: Failed to prepare Java
jcifs.smb.SmbException: Cannot create a file when that file already exists. at jcifs.smb.SmbTransport.checkStatus(SmbTransport.java:545) at jcifs.smb.SmbTransport.send(SmbTransport.java:646) at jcifs.smb.SmbSession.send(SmbSession.java:244) at jcifs.smb.SmbTree.send(SmbTree.java:119) at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.send(SmbFile.java:770) at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.mkdir(SmbFile.java:2518) at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.mkdirs(SmbFile.java:2544) at hudson.os.windows.WindowsRemoteFileSystem.mkdirs(WindowsRemoteFileSystem.java:58) at hudson.os.windows.ManagedWindowsServiceLauncher.launch(ManagedWindowsServiceLauncher.java:250) at hudson.slaves.SlaveComputer$1.call(SlaveComputer.java:204) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$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:636)

At the XP machine console, I have

C:\Documents and Settings\build>java -version
java version "1.7.0_09"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_09-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 23.5-b02, mixed mode, sharing)

Has anyone seen this before?

Answer 1

I got around this finally by creating an account at Oracle and downloading the JRE from there, jenkins did the downloading and alas, it all works now.