Strategy for debugging surefire “The forked VM terminated without saying properly goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called ?”

Question

I am working on a rather complex java project with many dependencies and many unit tests.

I am using java 1.6.0_65 on mac (mavericks) with maven 3.0.5 with maven-sur

Answer 1

What you may want to check is the argline setting for surefire or failsafe in build/pluging/plugin config in your pom. I had something improper in there that caused the forked vm to fail (Ironically, i put maven.failsafe.debug in there to help debug an earlier forking crash).