Steps to reproduce:

• Created a simple maven 3 job
• Tested it on master: worked fine.

• Restricted where this project can be run to a hudson slave on a windows 7 machine.
• Executed again, got the Stacktrace down below.

Two notes:
1. Running a job that installs only a parent pom works fine on the windows slave
2. There is a workaround. Adding a -DskipTests=true to the goal and options let the job pass. One of the jobs I wanted to run, does not include any test at all. But is still failing without -DskipTests=true.

Stacktrace:
Tests run: 3, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

mojoSucceeded org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.7.1(default-test)
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchStandard(Launcher.java:329)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:239)
at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.agent.Maven3Main.launch(Maven3Main.java:145)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:123)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:70)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:114)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:270)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.lang.Error: Unable to load resource hudson/maven/reporters/Messages.properties
at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.findResource(RemoteClassLoader.java:198)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResource(ClassLoader.java:1003)
at java.lang.Class.getResource(Class.java:2074)
at org.jvnet.localizer.ResourceBundleHolder.get(ResourceBundleHolder.java:83)
at org.jvnet.localizer.ResourceBundleHolder.get(ResourceBundleHolder.java:102)
at org.jvnet.localizer.ResourceBundleHolder.get(ResourceBundleHolder.java:102)
at org.jvnet.localizer.ResourceBundleHolder.format(ResourceBundleHolder.java:139)
at hudson.maven.reporters.Messages.SurefireArchiver_Recording(Messages.java:165)
at hudson.maven.reporters.SurefireArchiver.postExecute(SurefireArchiver.java:81)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder$MavenExecutionListener.reccordMojoSucceeded(Maven3Builder.java:556)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder$MavenExecutionListener.mojoSucceeded(Maven3Builder.java:520)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.DefaultExecutionEventCatapult.fire(DefaultExecutionEventCatapult.java:81)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:214)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:148)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:140)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:314)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:151)
at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.launcher.Maven3Launcher.main(Maven3Launcher.java:79)
... 18 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the path specified
at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
at java.io.File.checkAndCreate(File.java:1704)
at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1792)
at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1828)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.createTempDir(RemoteClassLoader.java:281)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.makeResource(RemoteClassLoader.java:262)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.findResource(RemoteClassLoader.java:194)
... 39 more
channel stopped
ERROR: Failed to parse POMs
hudson.util.IOException2: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:188)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:70)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:114)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:270)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.agent.Maven3Main.launch(Maven3Main.java:149)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:123)
... 10 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchStandard(Launcher.java:329)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:239)
at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.agent.Maven3Main.launch(Maven3Main.java:145)
... 11 more
Caused by: java.lang.Error: Unable to load resource hudson/maven/reporters/Messages.properties
at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.findResource(RemoteClassLoader.java:198)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResource(ClassLoader.java:1003)
at java.lang.Class.getResource(Class.java:2074)
at org.jvnet.localizer.ResourceBundleHolder.get(ResourceBundleHolder.java:83)
at org.jvnet.localizer.ResourceBundleHolder.get(ResourceBundleHolder.java:102)
at org.jvnet.localizer.ResourceBundleHolder.get(ResourceBundleHolder.java:102)
at org.jvnet.localizer.ResourceBundleHolder.format(ResourceBundleHolder.java:139)
at hudson.maven.reporters.Messages.SurefireArchiver_Recording(Messages.java:165)
at hudson.maven.reporters.SurefireArchiver.postExecute(SurefireArchiver.java:81)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder$MavenExecutionListener.reccordMojoSucceeded(Maven3Builder.java:556)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder$MavenExecutionListener.mojoSucceeded(Maven3Builder.java:520)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.DefaultExecutionEventCatapult.fire(DefaultExecutionEventCatapult.java:81)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:214)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:148)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:140)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:314)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:151)
at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.launcher.Maven3Launcher.main(Maven3Launcher.java:79)
... 18 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the path specified
at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
at java.io.File.checkAndCreate(File.java:1704)
at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1792)
at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1828)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.createTempDir(RemoteClassLoader.java:281)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.makeResource(RemoteClassLoader.java:262)
at hudson.remoting.RemoteClassLoader.findResource(RemoteClassLoader.java:194)
... 39 more
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