Cannot run mvn clean

Question

When i run "mvn clean " getting error message like below on windows 7 PC. i tried re-installing maven still error not solved. All other command except mvn clean is running fine.

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Using the builder org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder with a thread count of 1
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[INFO] Building SpringMVC Maven Webapp 1.0-SNAPSHOT
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[WARNING] The POM for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:jar:2.5 is invalid, transitive dependencies (if any) will not be available, enable debug logging for more details
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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Total time: 0.222 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2014-03-24T13:02:22+05:30
[INFO] Final Memory: 4M/15M
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[ERROR] Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:2.5 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:jar:2.5: 1 problem was encountered while building the effective model
[ERROR] [FATAL] Non-parseable POM C:\Users\suresh\.m2\repository\org\apache\maven\plugins\maven-clean-plugin\2.5\maven-clean-plugin-2.5.pom: end tag name </head> must be the same as start tag <meta> from line 4 (position: TEXT seen ...<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">\r\n</head>... @5:8)  @ line 5, column 8
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
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[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
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[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginResolutionException

Answer 1

Seems like somehow your clean plugin got corrupted when downloading. Just delete the C:\Users\suresh\.m2\repository\org\apache\maven\plugins\maven-clean-plugin\2.5 directory entirely and retry.