I get the same exception in Jenkins v. 1.477 and maven 2.2.1 Everything works fine, except for the release. There I get this exception.
[INFO] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/classworlds/Launcher [INFO] Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher Thanks, Erik Am Donnerstag, 6. September 2012 19:14:13 UTC+2 schrieb mpapo - Michaël Pailloncy: > > Hi, > > We faced in a problem with Maven during a release build. The job is > configured with the Release Plugin. > MAVEN_HOME variable is correctly set during the first build (and any > 'normals' builds), but when we launch a release and the build arrive to > the command 'mvn .. release:clean release:prepare release:perform' to > launch the Maven3 release, it seems that the MAVEN_HOME variable is not set > correctly and the build crashs with this error : > > class not found: org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher - > org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher > > > We have also Maven2.2.1 and Maven3.0.3 installed on the master (AIX) which > build this job. > In .profile file, M2_HOME is by default set to Maven2.2.1. > > The problem is appeared since we have updated Jenkins with version 1.478. > The same job worked correctly before the update (last release has been > built just before our update of Jenkins and the mvn command worked > correctly). > > Is this a bug ? Does I create a ticket in Jira ? > > Thanks in advance from any help ! > Michaël >