In one of my builds (run via Hudson), on only one of the multiple slaves it could run on, I'm seeing the below error. I've had the machine rebooted, but it keeps coming back. The other slaves this build runs on are configured identically to this one, and, as I mentioned, they have no problems. Any idea what I should be looking for to have caused this? (I'm trying this list since the actual error is popping up in the Maven execution - I do also seem to get it from the command-line as well).
A. [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Failed to create assembly: Failed to retrieve OS environment variables. Reason: Cannot run program "env": java.io.IOException: error=24, Too many open files [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to create assembly: Failed to retrieve OS environment variables. Reason: Cannot run program "env": java.io.IOException: error=24, Too many open files at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:719) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:556) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:535) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:387) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:348) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:180) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutorInterceptor.execute(LifecycleExecutorInterceptor.java:65) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:328) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:138) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362) 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:597) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) at hudson.maven.agent.Main.launch(Main.java:165) at hudson.maven.MavenBuilder.call(MavenBuilder.java:159) at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$Builder.call(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:677) at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$Builder.call(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:623) at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:104) at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48) at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:236) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:885) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:907) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: Failed to create assembly: Failed to retrieve OS environment variables. Reason: Cannot run program "env": java.io.IOException: error=24, Too many open files at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.mojos.AbstractAssemblyMojo.execute(AbstractAssemblyMojo.java:372) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:490) at hudson.maven.agent.PluginManagerInterceptor.executeMojo(PluginManagerInterceptor.java:182) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:694) ... 28 more Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.format.AssemblyFormattingException: Failed to retrieve OS environment variables. Reason: Cannot run program "env": java.io.IOException: error=24, Too many open files at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.utils.AssemblyFormatUtils.evaluateFileNameMapping(AssemblyFormatUtils.java:306) at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.archive.task.AddArtifactTask.execute(AddArtifactTask.java:170) at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.archive.task.AddDependencySetsTask.addDependencySet(AddDependencySetsTask.java:177) at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.archive.task.AddDependencySetsTask.execute(AddDependencySetsTask.java:116) at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.archive.phase.DependencySetAssemblyPhase.execute(DependencySetAssemblyPhase.java:74) at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.archive.DefaultAssemblyArchiver.createArchive(DefaultAssemblyArchiver.java:129) at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.mojos.AbstractAssemblyMojo.execute(AbstractAssemblyMojo.java:322) ... 31 more Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "env": java.io.IOException: error=24, Too many open files at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:459) at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:593) at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:431) at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:328) at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.utils.CommandLineUtils.getSystemEnvVars(CommandLineUtils.java:71) at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.utils.AssemblyFormatUtils.evaluateFileNameMapping(AssemblyFormatUtils.java:302) ... 37 more Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: error=24, Too many open files at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:148) at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:65) at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:452) ... 42 more