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

I also encountered the same problem, my problem has been resolved. The solution is:

According to error information being given, to find the corresponding jar in maven repository and deleted. Then executed mvn install command after deleting.

Answer 2

This issue is a pain in my a$$, I have this issue in my Mac, if I run

mvn clean install | grep "error reading"

[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/org/apache/velocity/velocity/1.7/velocity-1.7.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/commons-net/commons-net/3.3/commons-net-3.3.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.0/commons-lang3-3.0.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/org/bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk15on/1.54/bcprov-jdk15on-1.54.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/javax/mail/mail/1.4/mail-1.4.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/org/apache/pdfbox/pdfbox/2.0.0/pdfbox-2.0.0.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/com/itextpdf/itextpdf/5.5.10/itextpdf-5.5.10.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/1.7.24/slf4j-api-1.7.24.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/com/aspose/aspose-pdf/11.5.0/aspose-pdf-11.5.0.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/org/apache/velocity/velocity/1.7/velocity-1.7.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/commons-net/commons-net/3.3/commons-net-3.3.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.0/commons-lang3-3.0.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/org/bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk15on/1.54/bcprov-jdk15on-1.54.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/javax/mail/mail/1.4/mail-1.4.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/org/apache/pdfbox/pdfbox/2.0.0/pdfbox-2.0.0.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/com/itextpdf/itextpdf/5.5.10/itextpdf-5.5.10.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error reading /Users/ducnguyen/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/1.7.24/slf4j-api-1.7.24.jar; error in opening zip file

Removing all corrupted libs is the only solution

So I want to remove all of them at once.

mvn clean install | grep "error reading" | awk '{print "rm " $4 | "/bin/sh"  }'

The command needs AWK to take libPath string from column $4

Then rerun

mvn clean install