Hi, I'm completely new to maven and just trying out the "Maven in 5 Minutes" but not getting very far. When I try to create a new project I get the exception below; my machine has unimpeded access to the internet so the issue is not firewall related.
I'd appreciate some suggestions.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/Projects$ mvn -X archetype:create - DgroupId=com.test -DartifactId=testapp

+ Error stacktraces are turned on.
Maven version: 2.0.9
Java version: 1.6.0_03-p4
OS name: "freebsd" version: "7.0-stable" arch: "amd64" Family: "unix"
[DEBUG] Building Maven user-level plugin registry from: '/home/ shares/.m2/plugin-registry.xml' [DEBUG] Building Maven global-level plugin registry from: '/usr/local/ apache-maven/conf/plugin-registry.xml'
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'.
[DEBUG] Loading plugin prefixes from group: org.apache.maven.plugins
[INFO] org.apache.maven.plugins: checking for updates from central
[WARNING] repository metadata for: 'org.apache.maven.plugins' could not be retrieved from repository: central due to an error: Error transferring file
[DEBUG] Exception
org.apache.maven.wagon.TransferFailedException: Error transferring file
at org .apache .maven .wagon .providers .http.LightweightHttpWagon.fillInputData(LightweightHttpWagon.java:104)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.StreamWagon.get(StreamWagon.java:68)
at org .apache .maven .artifact .manager.DefaultWagonManager.getRemoteFile(DefaultWagonManager.java:470) at org .apache .maven .artifact .manager .DefaultWagonManager.getArtifactMetadata(DefaultWagonManager.java:370) at org .apache .maven .artifact .repository .metadata .DefaultRepositoryMetadataManager .resolve(DefaultRepositoryMetadataManager.java:97) at org .apache .maven .plugin .DefaultPluginMappingManager .loadPluginMappings(DefaultPluginMappingManager.java:103) at org .apache .maven .plugin .DefaultPluginMappingManager .loadPluginMappings(DefaultPluginMappingManager.java:87) at org .apache .maven .plugin .DefaultPluginMappingManager .getByPrefix(DefaultPluginMappingManager.java:61) at org .apache .maven .plugin .DefaultPluginManager .getPluginDefinitionForPrefix(DefaultPluginManager.java:154) at org .apache .maven .lifecycle .DefaultLifecycleExecutor .getMojoDescriptor(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1468) at org .apache .maven .lifecycle .DefaultLifecycleExecutor .segmentTaskListByAggregationNeeds(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:405) at org .apache .maven .lifecycle .DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:137)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:336)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287)
        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:597)
        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: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:519)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:469)
        at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:157)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:394)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:529)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:233)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:306)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:323)
at sun .net .www .protocol .http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:788) at sun .net .www .protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java: 729) at sun .net .www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:654) at sun .net .www .protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java: 977) at org .apache .maven .wagon .providers .http.LightweightHttpWagon.fillInputData(LightweightHttpWagon.java:83)
        ... 22 more
[INFO] Repository 'central' will be blacklisted
[DEBUG] Loading plugin prefixes from group: org.codehaus.mojo
[DEBUG] Skipping blacklisted repository central
[DEBUG] Skipping blacklisted repository central
[DEBUG] maven-archetype-plugin: using locally installed snapshot
[DEBUG] Artifact not found - using stub model: Unable to determine the latest version

  org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:pom:LATEST


[DEBUG] Using defaults for missing POM org.apache.maven.plugins:maven- archetype-plugin:pom:LATEST
[DEBUG] maven-archetype-plugin: using locally installed snapshot
[DEBUG] Artifact not found - using stub model: Unable to determine the release version

  org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:pom:RELEASE


[DEBUG] Using defaults for missing POM org.apache.maven.plugins:maven- archetype-plugin:pom:RELEASE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[DEBUG] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found at org .apache .maven .lifecycle .DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java: 1303) at org .apache .maven .lifecycle .DefaultLifecycleExecutor .getMojoDescriptor(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1542) at org .apache .maven .lifecycle .DefaultLifecycleExecutor .segmentTaskListByAggregationNeeds(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:405) at org .apache .maven .lifecycle .DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:137)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:336)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287)
        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:597)
        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.version.PluginVersionNotFoundException: The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found at org .apache .maven .plugin .version .DefaultPluginVersionManager .resolvePluginVersion(DefaultPluginVersionManager.java:229) at org .apache .maven .plugin .version .DefaultPluginVersionManager .resolvePluginVersion(DefaultPluginVersionManager.java:91) at org .apache .maven .plugin.DefaultPluginManager.verifyPlugin(DefaultPluginManager.java:171) at org .apache .maven .lifecycle .DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java: 1274)
        ... 14 more
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: < 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Jun 04 18:12:50 CEST 2008
[INFO] Final Memory: 3M/247M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

-Gianni


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