Hi, There are all sorts of things that can go wrong on a fresh maven build from the central maven repo timing out to an intermediate proxy sending html instead of a pom.xml file.
First: The version of mvn, since the output you have pasted doest contain quite as much feedback as I would have expected. What is the output of mvn -v I get: x43543-2:Application Cache ieb$ mvn -v Apache Maven 3.0.5 (r01de14724cdef164cd33c7c8c2fe155faf9602da; 2013-02-20 00:51:28+1100) Maven home: /usr/share/maven Java version: 1.6.0_45, vendor: Apple Inc. Java home: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: MacRoman OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.8.4", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac" x43543-2:Application Cache ieb$ I am currently doing a fresh build with a clean maven repo using mvn -Dmaven.repol.local=/tmp/tmprepo clean install my source code is at revision 1494674 I get further than you, however I have had to restart the build multiple time as I get connection timeouts from the central maven repo (probably because maven now hits it quite hard on first build... or my ISP is doing something bad). If your certain your network is good and there are no html files in the your local maven repo, try the build again and see if it gets to a different place, further on. If it does, keep trying, if not, share the output. HTH Ian
