Error reading settings.xml: Error reading settings file -------------------------------------------------------
Key: MNG-3761 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3761 Project: Maven 2 Issue Type: Bug Components: Command Line Affects Versions: 2.0.7 Environment: Windows xp Reporter: Dharanipathi When I tried to work with Maven, I'm getting the error message- "Error reading settings.xml: Error reading settings file". The following is the error trace for the same. Please debug and gimme the solution. H:\>mvn -e + Error stacktraces are turned on. Error reading settings.xml: Error reading settings file Error stacktrace: org.apache.maven.SettingsConfigurationException: Error reading settings file at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.buildSettings(MavenCli.java:328) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:184) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl. java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces sorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375) Caused by: java.io.EOFException: input contained no data at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.fillBuf(MXParser.java:2979 ) at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.more(MXParser.java:3022) at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.parseProlog(MXParser.java: 1407) at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.nextImpl(MXParser.java:139 2) at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.next(MXParser.java:1090) at org.apache.maven.settings.io.xpp3.SettingsXpp3Reader.read(SettingsXpp 3Reader.java:1634) at org.apache.maven.settings.io.xpp3.SettingsXpp3Reader.read(SettingsXpp 3Reader.java:1648) at org.apache.maven.settings.DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.readSettings(De faultMavenSettingsBuilder.java:121) at org.apache.maven.settings.DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.buildSettings(D efaultMavenSettingsBuilder.java:162) at org.apache.maven.settings.DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.buildSettings(D efaultMavenSettingsBuilder.java:153) at org.apache.maven.settings.DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.buildSettings(D efaultMavenSettingsBuilder.java:141) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.buildSettings(MavenCli.java:323) ... 9 more -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira