The forked VM terminated without saying properly goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called

Question

Please help me to solve this issue. I do not exactly understand what the error in the log means.

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 21.749s [INFO] Finished at: Thu Apr 24 10:10:20 IST 2014 [INFO] Final Memory: 15M/37M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.15:test (default-test) on project samples.simpleforwarding: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.15:test failed: The forked VM terminated without saying properly goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called ? [ERROR] Command wascmd.exe /X /C ""C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_55\jre\bin\java" -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -jar E:\OpenDayLight\controller\opendaylight\samples\simpleforwarding\target\surefire\surefirebooter53410321571238933.jar E:\OpenDayLight\controller\opendaylight\samples\simpleforwarding\target\surefire\surefire86076271125218001tmp E:\OpenDayLight\controller\opendaylight\samples\simpleforwarding\target\surefire\surefire_01846991116135903536tmp" [ERROR] -> [Help 1] [ERROR]  [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. [ERROR]  [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/PluginExecutionException 

Answer 1

I had the same problem and solved by adding:

<argLine>-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m</argLine> 

The whole plugin element is:

<plugin>   <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>   <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>   <configuration>     <forkCount>3</forkCount>     <reuseForks>true</reuseForks>     <argLine>-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m</argLine>   </configuration> </plugin> 

Answer 2

In my case the issue was related to too long log outputting into IntelliJ IDEA console (OS windows 10).

Command:

mvn clean install 

This command solved the issue to me:

mvn clean install > log-file.log