# Jenkins goes into StackOverflowError RiverMarshaller loop

**URL:** <https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-goes-into-stackoverflowerror-rivermarshaller-loop/9158>\
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**Created:** [August 22, 2023, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-goes-into-stackoverflowerror-rivermarshaller-loop/9158 "2023-08-22T12:52:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![mb77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@mb77](https://community.jenkins.io/u/mb77)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-goes-into-stackoverflowerror-rivermarshaller-loop/9158/1 "2023-08-22T12:52:43Z")

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Kind community,

we are investigating on a problem that occurs approximately once a month.

For apparently no reason, we usually find this error in the morning, Jenkins goes into an error state and each build fails at the start of the pipeline and prints the error below.

The error can appear during builds on all worker nodes or just a subset of them.

The only way to solve this is to restart Jenkins with all the nodes set offline, then wait about 10 minutes before bring back to online the nodes.

We are experiencing this on LTS Jenkins 2.361.4 (below all details about installation)

Unfortunately, there are no reference on this particular error, do you have any hint?

```auto
java.lang.StackOverflowError
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject(RiverMarshaller.java:135)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteFields(RiverMarshaller.java:1143)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteSerializableObject(RiverMarshaller.java:1101)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject(RiverMarshaller.java:268)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.writeArrayObject(RiverMarshaller.java:312)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject(RiverMarshaller.java:222)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteFields(RiverMarshaller.java:1143)
....
~ 1000 lines of repeated sequence
....
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteFields(RiverMarshaller.java:1143)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteSerializableObject(RiverMarshaller.java:1101)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteSerializableObject(RiverMarshaller.java:1080)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject(RiverMarshaller.java:268)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteFields(RiverMarshaller.java:1143)
....
~ 1000 lines of repeated sequence
....
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteFields(RiverMarshaller.java:1143)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteSerializableObject(RiverMarshaller.java:1101)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteSerializableObject(RiverMarshaller.java:1080)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject(RiverMarshaller.java:268)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.BlockMarshaller.doWriteObject(BlockMarshaller.java:65)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.BlockMarshaller.writeObject(BlockMarshaller.java:56)
at org.jboss.marshalling.MarshallerObjectOutputStream.writeObjectOverride(MarshallerObjectOutputStream.java:50)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverObjectOutputStream.writeObjectOverride(RiverObjectOutputStream.java:179)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:341)
at java.base/java.util.HashMap.internalWriteEntries(HashMap.java:1858)
at java.base/java.util.HashMap.writeObject(HashMap.java:1412)
at org.jboss.marshalling.reflect.JDKSpecific$SerMethods.callWriteObject(JDKSpecific.java:89)
at org.jboss.marshalling.reflect.SerializableClass.callWriteObject(SerializableClass.java:199)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteSerializableObject(RiverMarshaller.java:1089)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject(RiverMarshaller.java:268)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteFields(RiverMarshaller.java:1143)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteSerializableObject(RiverMarshaller.java:1101)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject(RiverMarshaller.java:268)
at org.jboss.marshalling.AbstractObjectOutput.writeObject(AbstractObjectOutput.java:58)
at org.jboss.marshalling.AbstractMarshaller.writeObject(AbstractMarshaller.java:116)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.support.pickles.serialization.RiverWriter.lambda$writeObject$1(RiverWriter.java:144)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.scriptsecurity.sandbox.groovy.GroovySandbox.runInSandbox(GroovySandbox.java:237)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.support.pickles.serialization.RiverWriter.writeObject(RiverWriter.java:143)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.saveProgram(CpsThreadGroup.java:578)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.saveProgram(CpsThreadGroup.java:554)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.saveProgramIfPossible(CpsThreadGroup.java:537)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.run(CpsThreadGroup.java:461)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.access$400(CpsThreadGroup.java:95)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup$2.call(CpsThreadGroup.java:330)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup$2.call(CpsThreadGroup.java:294)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsVmExecutorService$2.call(CpsVmExecutorService.java:67)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
at hudson.remoting.SingleLaneExecutorService$1.run(SingleLaneExecutorService.java:139)
at jenkins.util.ContextResettingExecutorService$1.run(ContextResettingExecutorService.java:30)
at jenkins.security.ImpersonatingExecutorService$1.run(ImpersonatingExecutorService.java:70)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:515)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)

```

Thanks,  
Marco.

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