Classic error: Unable to update index for central|http://repo1.maven.org/maven2

Question

I am facing a situation where my eclipse indigo is \"Unable to update index for central|http://repo1.maven.org/maven2\".

I am using an external Maven 3.

Answer 1

Just having had the same problem. Turned out the m2e plugin can't handle encrypted passwords in settings.xml. Just entered the plain password and updating the index worked again. Dependency download were not affected. They work just fine with encrypted passwords. Looks like a bug to me.