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

Just hit the same problem when building inside maven:3.5.4-jdk-8 using surefire 2.21.0. Upgrading surefire didn't help either, but disabling forking finally did the trick.

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-surefire-plugin
    2.22.1
    
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