maven-resources-plugin:2.5 - Cannot create resource output directory

Question

I occasionally receive this error when I build my project with

>mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.0.5 (r01de14724cdef164cd33c7c8c2fe155faf9602         


        

Answer 1

In my case the parent directory inside which maven was trying to create a directory was root, so I did a sudo chown -R : /path/to/directory to change permissions before rerunning the mvn command.