surefire plug in causing build error

[Kevin Rohr <ke...@gmail.com>]

I'm getting the following error attempting to build with maven 2. It looks
like Plexus is trying to load
'org.apache.maven.plugin.Mojoorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.4.2:test',
whiche looks like the fully qualified Mojo class prepended to the front of
the fully qualified 'test" surefire goal. I tried using surefire 2.4 and
surefire 2.3, same thing. I googled it, but didn't find much. Hoping someone
has a suggestion to what this means...

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[INFO]
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[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO]
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[INFO] Internal error in the plugin manager executing goal
'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.4.2:test': Unable to find
the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plu
gins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.4.2:test' in the plugin
'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin'
org/apache/maven/surefire/booter/SurefireExecutionException :
org/apache/maven/surefire/util/NestedCheckedException
[INFO]
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[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Internal error in
the plugin manager executing goal
'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.4.2:tes
t': Unable to find the mojo
'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.4.2:test' in the plugin
'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin'
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:562)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:512)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:482)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:330)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:291)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:142)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:336)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287)
        at
jrockit.reflect.InitialMethodInvoker.invoke(Ljava.lang.Object;[Ljava.lang.Object;)Ljava.lang.Object;(Unknown
Source)
        at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Ljava.lang.Object;[Ljava.lang.Object;I)Ljava.lang.Object;(Unknown
Source)
        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.PluginManagerException: Unable to find
the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.4.2:test' in the
plugin 'org.apa
che.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin'
        at
org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.getConfiguredMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:618)
        at
org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:429)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:558)
        ... 14 more
Caused by:
org.codehaus.plexus.component.repository.exception.ComponentLookupException:
Unable to lookup component
'org.apache.maven.plugin.Mojoorg.apache.maven.plug
ins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.4.2:test', it could not be created
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:335)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:440)
        at
org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.getConfiguredMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:609)
        ... 16 more
Caused by:
org.codehaus.plexus.component.factory.ComponentInstantiationException: Could
not instanciate component: role: 'null', implementation: '
org.apache.maven.pl
ugin.surefire.SurefirePlugin'
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.factory.java.JavaComponentFactory.makeException(JavaComponentFactory.java:77)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.factory.java.JavaComponentFactory.newInstance(JavaComponentFactory.java:62)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.createComponentInstance(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:1464)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.AbstractComponentManager.createComponentInstance(AbstractComponentManager.java:93)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.PerLookupComponentManager.getComponent(PerLookupComponentManager.java:48)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:331)
        ... 18 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/apache/maven/surefire/booter/SurefireExecutionException :
org/apache/maven/surefire/util/NestedCheckedException
        at
java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Ljava.lang.String;[BIILjava.security.ProtectionDomain;)Ljava.lang.Class;(Unknown
Source)
        at
java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
        at
java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Ljava.lang.String;Z)Ljava.lang.Class;(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.codehaus.classworlds.RealmClassLoader.loadClassDirect(RealmClassLoader.java:195)
        at
org.codehaus.classworlds.DefaultClassRealm.loadClass(DefaultClassRealm.java:255)
        at
org.codehaus.classworlds.RealmClassLoader.loadClass(RealmClassLoader.java:214)
        at
java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Ljava.lang.String;)Ljava.lang.Class;(Unknown
Source)
        at
java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassFromNative(Ljava.lang.String;)Ljava.lang.Class;(Unknown
Source)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(I)Ljava.lang.Object;(Unknown Source)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.factory.java.JavaComponentFactory.newInstance(JavaComponentFactory.java:44)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.createComponentInstance(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:1464)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.AbstractComponentManager.createComponentInstance(AbstractComponentManager.java:93)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.PerLookupComponentManager.getComponent(PerLookupComponentManager.java:48)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:331)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:440)
        at
org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.getConfiguredMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:609)
        at
org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:429)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:558)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:512)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:482)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:330)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:291)
[INFO]
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[INFO] Total time: 16 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Sat May 10 17:29:33 EDT 2008
[INFO] Final Memory: 28M/64M
[INFO]
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-- 
Kevin Rohr
(440) 522-0880
kevinmrohr@gmail.com