I am aware that there have been some transient issues with Jenkins, but I am repeatedly seeing this error and I suspect this might be something different:
Unpacking https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.3.3/apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.zip to /home/jenkins/jenkins-slave/tools/hudson.tasks.Maven_MavenInstallation/maven-3.3.3 on jenkins-test-971 [cloudstack-pr-analysis] $ /home/jenkins/jenkins-slave/tools/hudson.tasks.Maven_MavenInstallation/maven-3.3.3/bin/mvn clean --projects=org.apache.cloudstack:cloudstack org.apache.rat:apache-rat-plugin:0.10:check [ERROR] Error executing Maven. [ERROR] 1 problem was encountered while building the effective settings [FATAL] Non-parseable settings /home/jenkins/.m2/settings.xml: unexpected character in markup % (position: START_TAG seen ...</username>\n <password><%... @14:18) @ /home/jenkins/.m2/settings.xml, line 14, column 18 I keep getting the same error. I noticed a comment from rafaelweingartner on this PR: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1466#issuecomment-214861439 Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Thank you, Nathan Johnson