Looks like the M3 installation isn't sitting in the right place, or something else is wrong.
Unpacking https://www.apache.org/dist/maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.0-bin.tar.gz to /export/home/hudson/hudson-slave/tools/Maven_3.0 on solaris1 ERROR: Failed to parse POMs hudson.util.IOException2: Failed to install https://www.apache.org/dist/maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.0-bin.tar.gz to /export/home/hudson/hudson-slave/tools/Maven_3.0 at hudson.FilePath.installIfNecessaryFrom(FilePath.java:645) at hudson.tools.ZipExtractionInstaller.performInstallation(ZipExtractionInstaller.java:82) at hudson.tools.InstallerTranslator.getToolHome(InstallerTranslator.java:61) at hudson.tools.ToolLocationNodeProperty.getToolHome(ToolLocationNodeProperty.java:99) at hudson.tools.ToolInstallation.translateFor(ToolInstallation.java:149) at hudson.tasks.Maven$MavenInstallation.forNode(Maven.java:510) at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$RunnerImpl.doRun(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:493) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:420) at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1362) at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:405) at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:145) Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: https://www.apache.org/dist/maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.0-bin.tar.gz at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(HttpURLConnection.java:1496) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedException(HttpURLConnection.java:1490) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1144) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:234) at hudson.FilePath.installIfNecessaryFrom(FilePath.java:631) ... 11 more Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: https://www.apache.org/dist/maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.0-bin.tar.gz at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1439) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderField(HttpURLConnection.java:2301) at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderFieldDate(HttpURLConnection.java:450) at java.net.URLConnection.getLastModified(URLConnection.java:532) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getLastModified(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:398) at hudson.FilePath.installIfNecessaryFrom(FilePath.java:616) ... 11 more Sending e-mails to: d...@ws.apache.org Finished: FAILURE