well i got it on the root pom first, then removed the empty line above
<project> which seemed to get rid of the error for that pom, but it went
on to the next one, logkit.
I just fired up FC4 Linux, installed maven-2.0.1, checked out excalibur-trunk from scratch. The mvn build ran fine to completion. without any hiccups.
Are you running maven 2.0.1? If so, maybe there are some JARs that need updating? Maybe you can try with a clean repo?
Shash
