Hi Everyone, I am running mvn install command and I getting this error with the build. Is this a bug in maven or some problem with the repository.
[INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources. [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------[ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------[INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM). Project ID: null:plexus-compiler-api:jar:1.5.2 Reason: Cannot find parent: org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-compiler for project: null:plexus-compiler-api:jar:1.5.2 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------[INFO] Trace org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Unable to get dependency information: Unable to read the metadata file for artifact ' org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-compiler-api:jar': Cannot find parent: org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-compiler for project: null:plexus-compiler-api:jar:1.5.2 org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-compiler-api:jar:1.5.2 from the specified remote repositories: central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2), apache.snapshots (http://svn.apache.org/maven-snapshot-repository), snapshots (http://snapshots.maven.codehaus.org/maven2) Path to dependency: 1) org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:maven-plugin:2.0.1 at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:551) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle (DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:475) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:454) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures (DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:306) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:273) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:140) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:322) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:115) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:256) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:85) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:58) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:60) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:391) 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.artifact.resolver.ArtifactResolutionException: Unable to get dependency information: Unable to read the metadata file for artifact 'org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-compiler-api:jar': Cannot find parent: org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-compiler for project: null:plexus-compiler-api:jar:1.5.2 org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-compiler-api:jar:1.5.2 from the specified remote repositories: central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2), apache.snapshots (http://svn.apache.org/maven-snapshot-repository), snapshots (http://snapshots.maven.codehaus.org/maven2) Path to dependency: 1) org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:maven-plugin:2.0.1 at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactCollector.recurse( DefaultArtifactCollector.java:297) at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactCollector.collect( DefaultArtifactCollector.java(Compiled Code)) at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveTransitively (DefaultArtifactResolver.java:223) at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveTransitively (DefaultArtifactResolver.java:211) at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveTransitively (DefaultArtifactResolver.java:182) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.ensurePluginContainerIsComplete (DefaultPluginManager.java:608) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.getConfiguredMojo( DefaultPluginManager.java:519) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo( DefaultPluginManager.java:390) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:534) ... 17 more Caused by: org.apache.maven.artifact.metadata.ArtifactMetadataRetrievalException: Unable to read the metadata file for artifact ' org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-compiler-api:jar': Cannot find parent: org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-compiler for project: null:plexus-compiler-api:jar:1.5.2 at org.apache.maven.project.artifact.MavenMetadataSource.retrieve( MavenMetadataSource.java:131) at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactCollector.recurse( DefaultArtifactCollector.java:275) ... 25 more Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: Cannot find parent: org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-compiler for project: null:plexus-compiler-api:jar:1.5.2 at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.assembleLineage( DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1139) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildInternal (DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:672) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromRepository( DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:225) at org.apache.maven.project.artifact.MavenMetadataSource.retrieve( MavenMetadataSource.java:102) ... 26 more Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: Failed to build model from file '/home/gpamu/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-compiler/1.5.2/plexus- compiler-1.5.2.pom'. Error: 'null' at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel( DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1259) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.findModelFromRepository( DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:469) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.assembleLineage( DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1135) ... 29 more Caused by: sun.io.MalformedInputException at sun.io.ByteToCharUTF8.convert(ByteToCharUTF8.java(Compiled Code)) at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder$ConverterSD.convertInto( StreamDecoder.java(Inlined Compiled Code)) at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder$ConverterSD.implRead(StreamDecoder.java(Compiled Code)) at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.read(StreamDecoder.java(Compiled Code)) at java.io.InputStreamReader.read(InputStreamReader.java(Compiled Code)) at java.io.Reader.read(Reader.java(Inlined Compiled Code)) at org.codehaus.plexus.util.IOUtil.copy(IOUtil.java(Compiled Code)) at org.codehaus.plexus.util.IOUtil.copy(IOUtil.java:200) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel( DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1273) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel( DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1250) ... 31 more [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------[INFO] Total time: 13 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Wed Apr 05 11:30:30 CDT 2006 [INFO] Final Memory: 12M/36M -- -Gautham Pamu