Question

Sigh.

Using maven 2.2.1, and suddenly it can’t resolve the maven-clean-plugin. And really, how insane is it that a build tool requires a plugin for “clean”?

I tried syncing up my .m2 directory from another machine that works just fine, and I get the same results.

taproot:~/$ mvn clean package -DskipTests
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building CRM Webapp
[INFO]    task-segment: [clean, package]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Downloading: http://download.java.net/maven/2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/2.2/maven-clean-plugin-2.2.pom
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:pom:2.2' in repository maven.java.net (http://download.java.net/maven/2)
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/2.2/maven-clean-plugin-2.2.pom
[WARNING] Unable to get resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:pom:2.2' from repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2): Specified destination directory cannot be created: /Users/armhold/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/2.2
Downloading: http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public-jboss//org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/2.2/maven-clean-plugin-2.2.pom
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:pom:2.2' in repository public jboss (http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public-jboss/)
Downloading: https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases//org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/2.2/maven-clean-plugin-2.2.pom
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:pom:2.2' in repository jboss-my-rel (https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases/)
Downloading: http://repository.jboss.org/maven2//org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/2.2/maven-clean-plugin-2.2.pom
[WARNING] Unable to get resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:pom:2.2' from repository JBOSS (http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/): Specified destination directory cannot be created: /Users/armhold/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/2.2
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/2.2/maven-clean-plugin-2.2.pom
[WARNING] Unable to get resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:pom:2.2' from repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2): Specified destination directory cannot be created: /Users/armhold/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/2.2
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).


Project ID: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin

Reason: POM 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin' not found in repository: Unable to download the artifact from any repository

  org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:pom:2.2

from the specified remote repositories:
  jboss-my-rel (https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases/),
  central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2),
  maven.java.net (http://download.java.net/maven/2),
  JBOSS (http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/),
  public jboss (http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public-jboss/)

 for project org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin

My pom looks like this:

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>public jboss</id>
        <url>http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public-jboss/</url>
    </repository>

    <repository>
        <id>jboss-my-rel</id>
        <url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases/</url>
    </repository>

    <repository>
        <id>JBOSS</id>
        <name>JBoss Repository</name>
        <url>http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/</url>
    </repository>

</repositories>

<pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
        <id>maven.java.net</id>
        <name>Java.net Maven2 Repository</name>
        <url>http://download.java.net/maven/2</url>
    </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

Answer 1

if you carefully read your error, you can find the answer there:

 Specified destination directory cannot be created:
 /Users/armhold/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/2.2

you dont have write access to that directory (or the user running maven process doesn’t)