Surefire bug preventing build with OpenJDK on Ubuntu

[stw5768]

Affected Java version: OpenJDK 1.8.0_181-8u181-b13

Affected Operating System: Debian / Ubuntu

As stated here on Stackoverflow, existing bugs in above mentioned OpenJDK versions and the surefire plugin osgi.enroute depends on cause this bug.

mvn verify output:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Build Order:
[INFO] 
[INFO] quickstart
[INFO] rest
[INFO] app
[INFO] 
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building quickstart 0.0.2-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building rest 0.0.2-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:resources (default-resources) @ rest ---
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] Copying 4 resources
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) @ rest ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- bnd-maven-plugin:4.1.0:bnd-process (default) @ rest ---
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:testResources (default-testResources) @ rest ---
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /home/xayah/dev/e-mundo/osgi/osgi.enroute/examples/quickstart/rest/src/test/resources
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ rest ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.4:test (default-test) @ rest ---
[INFO] Surefire report directory: /home/xayah/dev/e-mundo/osgi/osgi.enroute/examples/quickstart/rest/target/surefire-reports

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 T E S T S
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Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter

Results :

Tests run: 0, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO] 
[INFO] quickstart ......................................... SUCCESS [  0.001 s]
[INFO] rest ............................................... FAILURE [  1.247 s]
[INFO] app ................................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1.364 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2018-11-03T14:07:21+01:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 14M/240M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.4:test (default-test) on project rest: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.4:test failed: The forked VM terminated without saying properly goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called ? -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginExecutionException
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] After correcting the problems, you can resume the build with the command
[ERROR]   mvn <goals> -rf :rest

[stw5768]

A workaround working for me was to disable the check for class path URLs by adding the following to the section of my ~/.m2/settings.xml (as mentioned here):

<profile>
    <id>SUREFIRE-1588</id>
    <activation>
        <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
    </activation>
    <properties>
        <argLine>-Djdk.net.URLClassPath.disableClassPathURLCheck=true</argLine>
    </properties>
</profile>

[timothyjward]

With luck the Surefire team will have this fixed soon. I think it's affecting a lot of people!