[HBASE-21417] Pre commit build is broken due to surefire plugin crashes

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-1, 1.3.3, 2.2.0, 2.0.3, 1.4.9, 2.1.2, 1.2.9
• Component/s: build
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Add -Djdk.net.URLClassPath.disableClassPathURLCheck=true when executing surefire plugin.
• Assignee: Duo Zhang
• Reporter: Duo Zhang
• Created: 01/Nov/18 02:43
• Updated: 23/Apr/19 11:51
• Resolved: 01/Nov/18 07:20

Description

The recent builds are all failed with

[ERROR] ExecutionException The forked VM terminated without properly saying goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called?
[ERROR] Command was /bin/sh -c cd /testptch/hbase/hbase-rsgroup && /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java -enableassertions -Dhbase.build.id=2018-10-31T11:09:36Z -Xmx2800m -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.awt.headless=true -jar /testptch/hbase/hbase-rsgroup/target/surefire/surefirebooter3799876849632796400.jar /testptch/hbase/hbase-rsgroup/target/surefire 2018-10-31T11-09-52_393-jvmRun1 surefire4495583426680149115tmp surefire_05657090267882138674tmp
[ERROR] Error occurred in starting fork, check output in log
[ERROR] Process Exit Code: 1

risdenk provided some useful reference:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=911925
https://github.com/carlossg/docker-maven/issues/90
https://github.com/carlossg/docker-maven/issues/92

It seems to be an OpenJDK issue.

Let's see if there are any workarounds.