I have been using maven 2.2.1 for a while at my company and we just switched to maven 3. I have rebuilt my computer (ubuntu maverick 10.04 32-bit ==> ubuntu natty 11.04 64-bit) and installed maven 3.
In maven 3.0.3, (I have not seen it with maven 2.2.1), it stops downloading after a few to several downloads. If I ^C the build, and keep re-running it, it will eventually built. It only dies when maven is trying to download file. It may happen before any progress is display, partial progress or full progress. Example: Downloading: http://internalserver.ouritranet.com:8086/archiva/repository/internal/org/apache/maven/skins/maven-default-skin/maven-metadata.xml Downloading: http:// internalserver.ouritranet.com:8086/archiva/repository/snapshots-corporate/org/apache/maven/skins/maven-default-skin/maven-metadata.xml Downloading: http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/skins/maven-default-skin/maven-metadata.xml Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/skins/maven-default-skin/maven-metadata.xml Downloading: http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/org/apache/maven/skins/maven-default-skin/maven-metadata.xml 341 B 341 B If I let it go for a while it then prints: Downloading: http://internalserver.ouritranet.com:8086/archiva/repository/internal/org/apache/maven/skins/maven-default-skin/maven-metadata.xml Downloading: http://internalserver.ouritranet.com:8086/archiva/repository/snapshots-corporate/org/apache/maven/skins/maven-default-skin/maven-metadata.xml Downloading: http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/skins/maven-default-skin/maven-metadata.xml Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/skins/maven-default-skin/maven-metadata.xml Downloading: http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/org/apache/maven/skins/maven-default-skin/maven-metadata.xml [WARNING] Checksum validation failed, could not read expected checksum: Error transferring file: Connection timed out for http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/skins/maven-default-skin/maven-metadata.xml [WARNING] Checksum validation failed, could not read expected checksum: Error transferring file: Connection timed out for http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/skins/maven-default-skin/maven-metadata.xml My other co-workers have not reported seeing this issue yet. Any ideas on why maven 3.0.3 is having this problem when maven 2.2.1 does not? FYI, we have a corporate proxy, not sure if that could be part of the problem. -Andrew