Looks like you missed some maven plugin. May be helpful to run `mvn install` before the building.
-----Original Message----- From: ? ? [mailto:yu20...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 3:39 PM To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: hadoop 2.7.2 build failure with error "plugin descriptor" Hi guys, When trying to build hadoop 2.7.2 on Ubuntu 5.10, I met following problem. [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Reactor Summary: [INFO] [INFO] Apache Hadoop Main ................................. SUCCESS [ 0.281 s] [INFO] Apache Hadoop Project POM .......................... SUCCESS [ 0.422 s] [INFO] Apache Hadoop Annotations .......................... SUCCESS [ 0.388 s] [INFO] Apache Hadoop Project Dist POM ..................... SUCCESS [ 0.056 s] [INFO] Apache Hadoop Assemblies ........................... SUCCESS [ 0.078 s] [INFO] Apache Hadoop Maven Plugins ........................ SUCCESS [ 0.179 s] [INFO] Apache Hadoop MiniKDC .............................. SUCCESS [ 0.388 s] [INFO] Apache Hadoop Auth ................................. SUCCESS [ 0.150 s] [INFO] Apache Hadoop Auth Examples ........................ SUCCESS [ 0.074 s] [INFO] Apache Hadoop Common ............................... FAILURE [ 0.002 s] [INFO] Apache Hadoop NFS .................................. SKIPPED [INFO] Apache Hadoop KMS .................................. SKIPPED [INFO] Apache Hadoop Common Project ....................... SKIPPED [INFO] Apache Hadoop HDFS ................................. SKIPPED [INFO] Apache Hadoop HttpFS ............................... SKIPPED [INFO] Apache Hadoop HDFS BookKeeper Journal .............. SKIPPED [INFO] Apache Hadoop HDFS-NFS ............................. SKIPPED [INFO] Apache Hadoop HDFS Project ......................... SKIPPED .... [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 4.249 s [INFO] Finished at: 2016-03-29T15:35:05+08:00 [INFO] Final Memory: 39M/215M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to parse plugin descriptor for org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-maven-plugins:2.7.2 (/home/opensrc/hadoop-2.7.2-src/hadoop-maven-plugins/target/classes): No plugin descriptor found at META-INF/maven/plugin.xml -> [Help 1] org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginDescriptorParsingException: Failed to parse plugin descriptor for org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-maven-plugins:2.7.2 (/home/opensrc/hadoop-2.7.2-src/hadoop-maven-plugins/target/classes): No plugin descriptor found at META-INF/maven/plugin.xml at org.apache.maven.plugin.internal.DefaultMavenPluginManager.extractPluginDescriptor(DefaultMavenPluginManager.java:249) at org.apache.maven.plugin.internal.DefaultMavenPluginManager.getPluginDescriptor(DefaultMavenPluginManager.java:184) at org.apache.maven.plugin.internal.DefaultMavenPluginManager.getMojoDescriptor(DefaultMavenPluginManager.java:298) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.getMojoDescriptor(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:241) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.DefaultLifecycleExecutionPlanCalculator.setupMojoExecution(DefaultLifecycleExecutionPlanCalculator.java:169) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.DefaultLifecycleExecutionPlanCalculator.setupMojoExecutions(DefaultLifecycleExecutionPlanCalculator.java:155) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.DefaultLifecycleExecutionPlanCalculator.calculateExecutionPlan(DefaultLifecycleExecutionPlanCalculator.java:131) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.DefaultLifecycleExecutionPlanCalculator.calculateExecutionPlan(DefaultLifecycleExecutionPlanCalculator.java:145) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.BuilderCommon.resolveBuildPlan(BuilderCommon.java:96) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:109) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:80) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:51) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:128) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:307) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:193) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:106) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:862) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:286) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:197) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356) Caused by: java.io.IOException: No plugin descriptor found at META-INF/maven/plugin.xml at org.apache.maven.plugin.internal.DefaultMavenPluginManager.extractPluginDescriptor(DefaultMavenPluginManager.java:244) ... 26 more [ERROR] [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginDescriptorParsingException Did this cause by maven? Any thoughts about this problem? Thanks, Jared
