okie I had to delete my local repository and this error went away. Some xml metadata file must have got corrupted is what I am guessing.
--- On Tue, 7/15/08, smitha s paramanandan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: smitha s paramanandan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Error installing artifact's metadata To: users@maven.apache.org Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 11:43 AM All of a sudden this error showed up today in Hudson builds. Does anybody have an idea as to what this means ? Thanks, Smitha. [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Error installing artifact's metadata: Error installing metadata: Error updating group repository metadata in epilog non whitespace content is not allowed but got 5 (position: END_TAG seen ...</metadata>5... @11:13) [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Error installing artifact's metadata: Error installing metadata: Error upd ating group repository metadata at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:564) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:480) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:459) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:311) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:278) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:143) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:334) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven..java:125) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:280) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.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: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: Error installing artifact's metadata: Error installing metadata: Error updating group repository metadata at org.apache.maven.plugin.install.InstallMojo.execute(InstallMojo.java:125) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:443) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:539) ... 16 more Caused by: org.apache.maven.artifact.installer.ArtifactInstallationException: Error installing artifact's metadata: Error installi ng metadata: Error updating group repository metadata at org.apache.maven.artifact.installer.DefaultArtifactInstaller.install(DefaultArtifactInstaller.java:91) at org.apache.maven.plugin.install.InstallMojo.execute(InstallMojo.java:94) ... 18 more Caused by: org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.RepositoryMetadataInstallationException: Error installing metadata: Error updating group repository metadata at org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.DefaultRepositoryMetadataManager.install(DefaultRepositoryMetadataManager ..java:454) at org.apache.maven.artifact.installer.DefaultArtifactInstaller.install(DefaultArtifactInstaller.java:79) ... 19 more Caused by: org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.RepositoryMetadataStoreException: Error updating group repository metadat a at org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.AbstractRepositoryMetadata.storeInLocalRepository(AbstractRepositoryMetad ata.java:76) at org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.DefaultRepositoryMetadataManager.install(DefaultRepositoryMetadataManager ..java:450) ... 20 more Caused by: org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.XmlPullParserException: in epilog non whitespace content is not allowed but got 5 (po sition: END_TAG seen ...</metadata>5... @11:13) at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.parseEpilog(MXParser.java:1627) at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.nextImpl(MXParser.java:1390) at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.next(MXParser.java:1090) at org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.io.xpp3.MetadataXpp3Reader.parseMetadata(MetadataXpp3Reader.java:386) at org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.io.xpp3.MetadataXpp3Reader.read(MetadataXpp3Reader.java:866) at org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.AbstractRepositoryMetadata.updateRepositoryMetadata(AbstractRepositoryMet adata.java:98) at org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.AbstractRepositoryMetadata.storeInLocalRepository(AbstractRepositoryMetad ata.java:68) ... 21 more [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 4 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Tue Jul 15 11:34:48 MST 2008 [INFO] Final Memory: 9M/16M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------