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Andrew Potter edited comment on SUREFIRE-1422 at 3/7/18 4:57 AM: ----------------------------------------------------------------- I tried with 2.21.0, but I also just ran `ps` on the image. -p is not supported by the default ps, so the output was formatted differently before I installed procps in the image. After installing procps, the ps output looked correct. Downgrading to 0.19.1 fixed my builds for now. was (Author: apottere): I tried with 2.21.0, but I also just ran `ps` on the image. -p is not supported by the default ps, so the output looked was formatted differently before I installed procps in the image. After installing procps, the ps output looked correct. Downgrading to 0.19.1 fixed my builds for now. > Forking fails on Linux if /bin/ps isn't available > ------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SUREFIRE-1422 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1422 > Project: Maven Surefire > Issue Type: Bug > Components: process forking > Affects Versions: 2.20.1 > Environment: Linux (Debian 9 with OpenJDK 8) > Reporter: Emmanuel Bourg > Assignee: Tibor Digana > Priority: Major > Fix For: 2.21.0 > > > Hi, > With the changes introduced by SUREFIRE-1302 I'm now experiencing a failure > on Linux when the fork mode is enabled: > {code} > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.20.1:test (default-test) on > project foo: There are test failures. > [ERROR] > [ERROR] Please refer to /foo/target/surefire-reports for the individual test > results. > [ERROR] Please refer to dump files (if any exist) [date]-jvmRun[N].dump, > [date].dumpstream and [date]-jvmRun[N].dumpstream. > [ERROR] The forked VM terminated without properly saying goodbye. VM crash or > System.exit called? > {code} > I traced the issue back to the PpidChecker class, the code assumes that > {{/bin/ps}} or {{/usr/bin/ps}} exist but this isn't guaranteed (especially on > trimmed down containers commonly used for continuous integration). > It would be nice to have a fallback mechanism when ps isn't available, or at > least check its existence and display an explicit message stating that it > must be installed. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)