Docker->Maven->Failsafe->Surefire starting fork fails with “The forked VM terminated without properly saying goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called?”

Question

As per title: I\'m trying to run Maven automated test from Jenkins slave that is containerized and after battling this for a week now I\'m running out of ideas. It works as

Answer 1

I have encountered the same issue in the following environment: docker image from alpine 3.7, maven surefire plugin version 2.21.0.

The root cause of that is described at SUREFIRE-1422: surefire tries to use ps -p to check forked process. The solution for me was to add procps:

RUN apk add --no-cache procps