[SUREFIRE-1426] Fork crash doesn't fail build with -Dmaven.test.failure.ignore=true

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.22.3, 3.0.0-M6
• Component/s: Maven Failsafe Plugin, Maven Surefire Plugin, process forking
• Assignee: Tibor Digana
• Reporter: Dan Berindei
• Created: 29/Sep/17 09:48
• Updated: 20/Jun/22 14:42
• Resolved: 25/Mar/22 09:10

Description

We have a reactor with many modules, and also a few random test failures. We want to run the tests of all the modules even if a test failed in the core module, so we use mvn -Dmaven.test.failure.ignore=true. mvn --fail-at-end only builds the modules that do not depend on the module with a failed test.

The problem is that fork crashes like this one are written to the surefire reports, so Jenkins ignores them:

org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooterForkException: There was an error in the forked process
Unable to load category: stress
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.fork(ForkStarter.java:665)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.fork(ForkStarter.java:533)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.run(ForkStarter.java:279)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.run(ForkStarter.java:243)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.executeProvider(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:1077)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.executeAfterPreconditionsChecked(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:907)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.execute(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:785)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:134)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:207)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:116)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:80)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:51)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:128)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:307)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:193)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:106)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:863)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:288)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:199)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SUREFIRE-1681 Don't ignore errors while using maven.test.failure.ignore
• is related to: HIVE-26343 TestWebHCatE2e causes surefire fork to exit and fails
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #478
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #496