Just this morning our builds on Continuum were failing. Looking at the
logs this is what I see:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Internal error in the plugin manager executing goal
'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.1:jar': Unable to find
the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.1:jar' in the
plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin'
Component descriptor cannot be found in the component repository:
org.apache.maven.plugin.Mojoorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.1:jar.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Internal error
in the plugin manager executing goal
'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.1:jar': Unable to find
the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.1:jar' in the
plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin'
        at 
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:543)
        at 
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:480)
        at 
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:459)
        at 
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:311)
        at 
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:278)
        at 
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:143)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:334)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:125)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:280)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginManagerException: Unable to
find the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.1:jar' in
the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin'
        at 
org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.getConfiguredMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:571)
        at 
org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:421)
        at 
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:539)
        ... 16 more
Caused by: 
org.codehaus.plexus.component.repository.exception.ComponentLookupException:
Component descriptor cannot be found in the component repository:
org.apache.maven.plugin.Mojoorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.1:jar.
        at 
org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:323)
        at 
org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:312)
        at 
org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:440)
        at 
org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.getConfiguredMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:562)


I thought this was related to corrupted meta data in the repo folder
so I deleted ~/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven which forced maven to
retrieve all the artifacts and plugins it needs but I am still getting
the same error.

Any idea whats going one ?

Thanks,
Bashar

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