I changed my CLASSPATH to refer to xml-axis/java/lib/clutil.jar instead of xml-axis/java/build/lib/clutil.jar (and similarly for log4j-core.jar and wsdl4j.jar) and I've not seen the intermittent failure like that below since.
>/home/norm/axis/xml-axis/java/test/wsdl/Wsdl2javaTestSuite.xml:38: Error while running test.wsdl.Wsdl2javaAntTask Glyn
