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Jason van Zyl commented on MNG-3761: ------------------------------------ Improved in 3.x. > Error for invalid settings file should indicate the location of the settings > file > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MNG-3761 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3761 > Project: Maven 2 & 3 > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Command Line > Affects Versions: 2.0.7 > Environment: Windows xp > Reporter: Dharanipathi > Priority: Trivial > > When I tried to work with Maven, I'm getting the error message- "Error > reading settings.xml: Error reading settings file". > The following is the error trace for the same. Please debug and gimme the > solution. > H:\>mvn -e > + Error stacktraces are turned on. > Error reading settings.xml: Error reading settings file > Error stacktrace: > org.apache.maven.SettingsConfigurationException: Error reading settings file > at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.buildSettings(MavenCli.java:328) > at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:184) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl. > java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces > sorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) > at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315) > at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) > at > org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430) > at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375) > Caused by: java.io.EOFException: input contained no data > at > org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.fillBuf(MXParser.java:2979 > ) > at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.more(MXParser.java:3022) > at > org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.parseProlog(MXParser.java: > 1407) > at > org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.nextImpl(MXParser.java:139 > 2) > at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.next(MXParser.java:1090) > at > org.apache.maven.settings.io.xpp3.SettingsXpp3Reader.read(SettingsXpp > 3Reader.java:1634) > at > org.apache.maven.settings.io.xpp3.SettingsXpp3Reader.read(SettingsXpp > 3Reader.java:1648) > at > org.apache.maven.settings.DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.readSettings(De > faultMavenSettingsBuilder.java:121) > at > org.apache.maven.settings.DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.buildSettings(D > efaultMavenSettingsBuilder.java:162) > at > org.apache.maven.settings.DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.buildSettings(D > efaultMavenSettingsBuilder.java:153) > at > org.apache.maven.settings.DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.buildSettings(D > efaultMavenSettingsBuilder.java:141) > at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.buildSettings(MavenCli.java:323) > ... 9 more -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira