initial setup for hippo CMS is frozen and ends with error message - maven

Question

i am trying to get started with Hippo CMS. According to the docs Get started with Hippo everything worked so far. But at the last step where you have to run
mvn -Pcargo.run (-Drepo.path=storage)
the installation process seems to be frozen and after at least 5 min finishes with this error message. No idea what to do, according to the docs Hippo Prerequisites everything is correct set up so far (Java and Maven Version).
The error message is as follows:
[INFO] --- cargo-maven2-plugin:1.6.5:start (cargo-run) # myhippoproject
--- [INFO] [2.ContainerStartMojo] Resolved container artifact
org.codehaus.cargo:cargo-core-container-tomcat:jar:1.6.5 for container
tomcat8x [INFO] [talledLocalContainer] Tomcat 8.x starting... [INFO]
[stalledLocalDeployer] Deploying
[/Users/Mangrove/Desktop/myhippoproject/cms/target/cms.war] to
[/Users/Mangrove/Desktop/myhippoproject/target/tomcat8x/webapps]...
[INFO] [stalledLocalDeployer] Deploying
[/Users/Mangrove/Desktop/myhippoproject/site/target/site.war] to
[/Users/Mangrove/Desktop/myhippoproject/target/tomcat8x/webapps]...
[WARNING] [stalledLocalDeployer] The WAR contains a context.xml file
which sets the path to [essentials], which means path set it the Cargo
configuration will be ignored by Tomcat [INFO] [stalledLocalDeployer]
Deploying
[/Users/Mangrove/Desktop/myhippoproject/essentials
/target/essentials.war]
to [/Users/Mangrove/Desktop/myhippoproject/target/tomcat8x/webapps]...
[INFO] [yer.DeployerWatchdog] Deployable
[http://localhost:8080/cargocpc/index.html] failed to finish deploying
within the timeout period [600000]. The Deployable state is thus
unknown. [WARNING] [talledLocalContainer]
org.codehaus.cargo.container.ContainerException: Deployable
[http://localhost:8080/cargocpc/index.html] failed to finish deploying
within the timeout period [600000]. The Deployable state is thus
unknown. [ERROR] Starting container
[org.codehaus.cargo.container.tomcat.
Tomcat8xInstalledLocalContainer#40f8f
5a8] failed, now stopping container [INFO] [talledLocalContainer]
Tomcat 8.x is stopping... [INFO] [talledLocalContainer] Tomcat 8.x is
stopped [INFO] -------------------------------------------------------
----------------- [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------
------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time:
10:28 min [INFO] Finished at: 2018-05-13T15:57:13+02:00 [INFO] -------
-----------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.cargo:cargo-maven2-
plugin:1.6.5:start (cargo-run) on project myhippoproject: Cannot start
container
[org.codehaus.cargo.container.tomcat.
Tomcat8xInstalledLocalContainer#40f8f
5a8]: Deployable [http://localhost:8080/cargocpc/index.html] failed to
finish deploying within the timeout period [600000]. The Deployable
state is thus unknown. -> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full
stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-
run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [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/MojoExecutionException
Any hint, advice, tipp, suggestion is very welcome, thanks.

Answer 1

Finally i solved it. The Maven setup was not correctly wired. In any case i had to reset my pc, and suddenly it works now. Also i had different java versions at the time. Great help was also the hippo forum Hippo Community Forum. Thanks guys.

Answer 2

The error just means that the container did not start. The connection refused in this case is just a symptom of how cargo checks if the container is up.
That being said, this is quite a long time to have to wait to start. You could try to increase the timeout, but even this timeout is too long for regular work purposes.
Things to try include increasing the timeout, increasing jvm memory, start over, or try a different computer. Also make sure the process is running with the right permissions.