Jenkins: Maven can run "clean install", but not "--version" - maven

Question

I have a Maven job in Jenkins. It can run "clean install", but not a simple "--version". It actually does output all the info from "mvn --version", but then fails with a "java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException".
Anyone knows why this is failing ??
Log output:
[workspace] $ java -cp /home/gerrit/.jenkins/plugins/maven-plugin/WEB-INF/lib/maven3-agent-1.2.jar:/home/gerrit/.jenkins/tools/hudson.tasks.Maven_MavenInstallation/Maven_3.0.4/boot/plexus-classworlds-2.4.jar org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.agent.Maven3Main /home/gerrit/.jenkins/tools/hudson.tasks.Maven_MavenInstallation/Maven_3.0.4 /home/gerrit/.jenkins/war/WEB-INF/lib/remoting-2.23.jar /home/gerrit/.jenkins/plugins/maven-plugin/WEB-INF/lib/maven3-interceptor-1.2.jar 56672
<===[JENKINS REMOTING CAPACITY]===>channel started
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.beanutils.converters.BooleanConverter).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
Executing Maven: -B -f /home/gerrit/.jenkins/jobs/<project>/workspace/pom.xml --version
Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 09:44:56+0100)
Maven home: /home/gerrit/.jenkins/tools/hudson.tasks.Maven_MavenInstallation/Maven_3.0.4
Java version: 1.7.0, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "2.6.32-5-xen-amd64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchStandard(Launcher.java:329)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:239)
at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.agent.Maven3Main.launch(Maven3Main.java:158)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:100)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:66)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:326)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.cli.MavenExecutionRequestsBuilderException
at org.apache.maven.cli.DefaultMavenExecutionRequestBuilder.getMavenExecutionRequest(DefaultMavenExecutionRequestBuilder.java:148)
at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.launcher.Maven3Launcher.getMavenExecutionRequest(Maven3Launcher.java:94)
at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.launcher.Maven3Launcher.main(Maven3Launcher.java:77)
... 18 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli$ExitException
at org.apache.maven.cli.DefaultMavenExecutionRequestBuilder.cli(DefaultMavenExecutionRequestBuilder.java:238)
at org.apache.maven.cli.DefaultMavenExecutionRequestBuilder.getMavenExecutionRequest(DefaultMavenExecutionRequestBuilder.java:120)
... 20 more
channel stopped
ERROR: Failed to parse POMs
hudson.util.IOException2: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:162)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:66)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:326)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.agent.Maven3Main.launch(Maven3Main.java:161)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:100)
... 10 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchStandard(Launcher.java:329)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:239)
at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.agent.Maven3Main.launch(Maven3Main.java:158)
... 11 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.cli.MavenExecutionRequestsBuilderException
at org.apache.maven.cli.DefaultMavenExecutionRequestBuilder.getMavenExecutionRequest(DefaultMavenExecutionRequestBuilder.java:148)
at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.launcher.Maven3Launcher.getMavenExecutionRequest(Maven3Launcher.java:94)
at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.launcher.Maven3Launcher.main(Maven3Launcher.java:77)
... 18 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli$ExitException
at org.apache.maven.cli.DefaultMavenExecutionRequestBuilder.cli(DefaultMavenExecutionRequestBuilder.java:238)
at org.apache.maven.cli.DefaultMavenExecutionRequestBuilder.getMavenExecutionRequest(DefaultMavenExecutionRequestBuilder.java:120)
... 20 more
Build does not meet criteria for workspace archiving - result is not at least SUCCESS.
An attempt to send an e-mail to empty list of recipients, ignored.
Finished: FAILURE

Answer 1

This appears to be a bug in jenkins and I've raised a ticket in their bug tracker:
https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-21753
In the mean time, the only viable workaround that I've found is to use Maven 2 instead.

Answer 2

I was having this error. I use git. I specified Git repository into root of project (http://user#github.com/project.git/PROJECT) and get a good build.
Before I use http://user#github.com/project.git
And Build is good when I use maven 3.0.4