Hello, I've been trying to get maven 2 working for a while now, and have had next to zero luck doing so. I suspect has something to do with codehaus servers being down, which maven apparently wishes to contact for downloading from "central". I've tried forcing mvn to contact a mirror in place of central, also to no avail. I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction and will point me at the gotchya I'm missing here.
Debug info follows: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mvn --version Maven version: 2.0.7 Java version: 1.6.0 OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.20-16-generic" arch: "i386" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.whatever-DartifactId=whatever -e + Error stacktraces are turned on. [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'. [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: The plugin ' org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1286) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.getMojoDescriptor( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1522) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.segmentTaskListByAggregationNeeds (DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:386) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:138) 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:597) 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.version.PluginVersionNotFoundException: The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found at org.apache.maven.plugin.version.DefaultPluginVersionManager.resolvePluginVersion (DefaultPluginVersionManager.java:228) at org.apache.maven.plugin.version.DefaultPluginVersionManager.resolvePluginVersion (DefaultPluginVersionManager.java:90) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.verifyPlugin( DefaultPluginManager.java:166) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1257) ... 14 more [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: < 1 second [INFO] Finished at: Mon Oct 01 16:06:18 CDT 2007 [INFO] Final Memory: 1M/4M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ //// DIFFERENT FLAG //// [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.whatever-DartifactId=whatever -X + Error stacktraces are turned on. Maven version: 2.0.7 Java version: 1.6.0 OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.20-16-generic" arch: "i386" [DEBUG] Building Maven user-level plugin registry from: '/home/jason/.m2/plugin-registry.xml' [DEBUG] Building Maven global-level plugin registry from: '/home/jason/programs/maven-2.0.7/conf/plugin-registry.xml' [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'. [DEBUG] Loading plugin prefixes from group: org.apache.maven.plugins [DEBUG] Loading plugin prefixes from group: org.codehaus.mojo [DEBUG] maven-archetype-plugin: using locally installed snapshot [DEBUG] Artifact not found - using stub model: Unable to determine the latest version org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:pom:LATEST [DEBUG] Using defaults for missing POM org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:pom:LATEST [DEBUG] maven-archetype-plugin: using locally installed snapshot [DEBUG] Artifact not found - using stub model: Unable to determine the release version org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:pom:RELEASE [DEBUG] Using defaults for missing POM org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:pom:RELEASE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [DEBUG] Trace org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: The plugin ' org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1286) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.getMojoDescriptor( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1522) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.segmentTaskListByAggregationNeeds (DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:386) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:138) 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:597) 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.version.PluginVersionNotFoundException: The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found at org.apache.maven.plugin.version.DefaultPluginVersionManager.resolvePluginVersion (DefaultPluginVersionManager.java:228) at org.apache.maven.plugin.version.DefaultPluginVersionManager.resolvePluginVersion (DefaultPluginVersionManager.java:90) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.verifyPlugin( DefaultPluginManager.java:166) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1257) ... 14 more [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: < 1 second [INFO] Finished at: Mon Oct 01 16:07:24 CDT 2007 [INFO] Final Memory: 1M/4M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ////// settings.xml //// (same result in error logs) <settings> <mirrors> <mirror> <id>ibiblio.net</id> <url>http://www.ibiblio.net/pub/packages/maven2</url> <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf> // also tried it with <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf> </mirror> </mirrors> </settings> -- ======================================================== Jason Nerothin Programmer/Analyst Gates Business Solutions ========================================================