Maven : error in opening zip file when running mav

Question

[ERROR] error: error reading C:\Users\suresh\.m2\repository\org\jdom\jdom\1.1\jdom-1.1.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading C:\Users\suresh\.m2\repository\javax\servlet\servlet-api\2.5\servlet-api-2.5.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading C:\Users\suresh\.m2\repository\org\apache\cxf\cxf-rt-bindings-http\2.2.1\cxf-rt-bindings-http-2.2.1.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading C:\Users\suresh\.m2\repository\org\codehaus\jra\jra\1.0-alpha-4\jra-1.0-alpha-4.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading C:\Users\suresh\.m2\repository\org\apache\cxf\cxf-api\2.2.1\cxf-api-2.2.1.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading C:\Users\suresh\.m2\repository\org\apache\cxf\cxf-common-utilities\2.2.1\cxf-common-utilities-2.2.1.jar; error in opening zip file
[INFO] 44 errors

How to resolve this error while running mvn clean install?

And I see that, starting from servlet-api, no packages are being created inside the local repository on my disk.

Answer 1

1. I deleted the jar downloaded by maven
2. manually download the jar from google
3. place the jar in the local repo in place of deleted jar.

This resolved my problem.

Hope it helps

Answer 2

Try to remove your repository in /.m2/repository/ and then do a mvn clean install to download the files again.

Answer 3

Accidently I found a simple workaroud to this issue. Running Maven with -X option forces it to try other servers to download source code. Instead of trash HTML inside some jar files there is correct content.

mvn clean install -X > d:\log.txt

And in the log file you find messages like these:

Downloading: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/public/org/apache/axis2/mex/1.6.1-wso2v2/mex-1.6.1-wso2v2-impl.jar
[DEBUG] Writing resolution tracking file D:\wso2_local_repository\org\apache\axis2\mex\1.6.1-wso2v2\mex-1.6.1-wso2v2-impl.jar.lastUpdated
Downloading: http://maven.wso2.org/nexus/content/groups/wso2-public/org/apache/axis2/mex/1.6.1-wso2v2/mex-1.6.1-wso2v2-impl.jar

You see, Maven switched repository.apache.org to maven.wso2.org when it encountered a download problem. So the following error is now gone:

[ERROR] error: error reading D:\wso2_local_repository\org\apache\axis2\mex\1.6.1-wso2v2\mex-1.6.1-wso2v2-impl.jar; error in opening zip file

Answer 4

I had the same problem but previous solutions not work for me. The only solution works for me is the following URL.

https://enlightensoft.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/maven-error-reading-error-in-opening-zip-file/

[EDIT]

Here I explain more about it

Suppose you got an error like below

[ERROR] error: error reading C:\Users\user\.m2\repository\org\jdom\jdom\1.1\jdom-1.1.jar; error in opening zip file

Then you have to follow these steps.

1. First, delete the existing jar C:\Users\user\.m2\repository\org\jdom\jdom\1.1\jdom-1.1.jar
2. Then you have to manually download relevant jar from Maven central repository. You can download from this link here
3. After that, you have to copy that downloaded jar into the previous directory.C:\Users\user\.m2\repository\org\jdom\jdom\1.1\

Then you can build your project using mvn clean install

hope this will help somebody.

Answer 5

Deleting the entire local m2 repo may not be advisable. As in my case I have hundreds and hundreds of jars in my local, I don't want to re-download them all just for one jar. Most of the above answers didn't work for me, here is what I did.

STEP:1: Ensure if you are downloading from the correct Maven repo in you settings.xml. In my case it was referring to http://central.maven.org/maven2/ as https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/. So it was getting corrupted or going otherwise?

STEP:2: Delete the folder containing the artifact and other details in your local machine.This will force it download it again upon next build

STEP:3: mvn clean install :).

Hope it helps.

Answer 6

This error can occur when your connection gets interrupted during your dependencies are being downloaded. Delete the relevant repository folder and run following command again to download a fresh copy of corrupted file.

mvn clean install