Error in starting maven - nullpointerexception ----------------------------------------------
Key: MNG-5198 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5198 Project: Maven 2 & 3 Issue Type: Bug Components: Errors Affects Versions: 2.2.1 Environment: windows XP Reporter: pgp skr Attachments: maven_error.bmp When I run mvn --version I am getting the following error. java.lang.NullPointerException: key can't be null at java.lang.System.checkKey(System.java:773) at java.lang.System.getProperty(System.java:649) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Configurator.configure(Configurator.java:240 ) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.configure(Launcher.java:156) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:426) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375) The following are the settings done for Maven set JAVA_HOME=D:/java/jdk1.6.0_02 set M2_HOME=D:/ReadNew/apache-maven-2.2.1 set M2=%M2_HOME%/bin After referring to the link (http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Created-MNG-4865-mvn-fails-because-of-null-property-td3211656.html) I added the following entry in m2.conf set MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m But still the error persists. Could someone help me in resolving the same. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira