All, The only suggestion I got regarding this was to use a Repository Manager which was really a no go in my environment.
The way I ended up fixing it was to go around the problem. I switched transport protocols from using http to ftp. That seems to be working so far. This was as simple as modifying my settings.xml on AIX to use FTP as opposed to HTTP. This also required putting these jars in my maven/lib directory: commons-net-2.0.jar oro-2.0.8.jar wagon-ftp-1.0-beta-6.jar The one down side to this is that FTP is a bit slower than HTTP. But at least it works. Where the original problem really is, we have no clue. But here are our theories FWIW: 1) Some bug in the http wagon that only effects AIX. Does the fact that the FTP wagon works prove this? Probably not. 2) Some bug in the IBM JDK on AIX. We have tried patching to the latest 6.0.0.125. 3) We are not on the latest and greatest AIX 5.3 but several rev's back. Maybe patching the OS would fix it? 4) Some bug in IIS on Windows 2008. We are on the latest and greatest(?) here. 5) We don't know what we are doing (hey, gotta leave that possibility open, right?) Anyway, wanted to share my results for those Googling for issues in the future. -Jim -----Original Message----- From: Jim McCaskey [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:47 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: Maven on AIX getting Authentication Denied errors Hello all, I'm in a very mixed environment which has me doing a variety of things on Native platforms. I have been able to get this to work reliably on Solaris, HPUX, Linux, Win32, and Win64. However, I am having some trouble with AIX. I have a local Maven repository which requires authentication. All the other platforms work fine. AIX works fine SOME of the time. This is where it gets somewhat weird. Maven will go along pulling it's depenedencies from the maven repository just fine, then suddenly start throwing Authentication Denied errors. I'm using the same settings.xml and the properly generated ~/.m2/settings-security.xml. Here is my servers entry in my settings.xml file: <!-- Server passwords, requires a properly configured ~/.m2/settings-security.xml --> <servers> <server> <id>pervasive</id> <username>AUSTIN\conman</username> <password>{jkPqcV8wN0MHmNDU3r7AAWR6ForysuXgSMRPdz7JzvA=}</password> </server> </servers> As the user name would suggest, I am connecting to a Windows server which is where my Maven repository lives. I'm not using a repository manager, just a file system exported via IIS (Windows Server 2008 if that matters). That works for my entire Maven deploy except for this flaky behavior from AIX. In other words, as much as I would like to bash Microsoft, it works everywhere else. When we look at some of the logs the IT guys can scarf off of the server, it looks like AIX stops sending it's credentials across when it makes the connections. So, to be clear. I'm jumping through these hoops: AIX 5.3 -> IBM JVM -> Maven 2.1.0 -> Maven Security -> Microsoft IIS Certainly nothing in that stream seems odd. :) Here are some of the vital statistics as reported from the tools: # mvn --version Apache Maven 2.1.0 (r755702; 2009-03-18 14:10:27-0500) Java version: 1.6.0 Java home: /usr/java6/jre Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: ISO8859-1 OS name: "aix" version: "5.3" arch: "ppc" Family: "unix" # /usr/java6/jre/bin/java -version java version "1.6.0" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pap3260sr4-20090219_01(SR4)) IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, J2RE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 AIX ppc-32 jvmap3260-20090215_29883 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled) J9VM - 20090215_029883_bHdSMr JIT - r9_20090213_2028 GC - 20090213_AA) JCL - 20090218_01 # Has anyone run across this problem before? If so, how have you dealt with it? -Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
