title: Maven surefire could not find ForkedBooter class
body: <p>Recently coming to a new project, I'm trying to compile our source code. Everything worked fine yesterday, but today is another story.</p>
  
  <p>Every time I'm running <code>mvn clean install</code> on a module, once reaching the tests, it crashes into an error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.18.1:test (default-test) @ recorder ---
  [INFO] Surefire report directory: /lhome/code/recorder/target/surefire-reports
  [INFO] Using configured provider org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreProvider
  [INFO] parallel='none', perCoreThreadCount=true, threadCount=0, useUnlimitedThreads=false, threadCountSuites=0,     threadCountClasses=0, threadCountMethods=0, parallelOptimized=true
  
  -------------------------------------------------------
   T E S T S
  -------------------------------------------------------
  Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter
  
  Results :
  
  Tests run: 0, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and later on:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.18.1:test (default-test) on project recorder: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.18.1:test failed: The forked VM terminated without properly saying goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called?
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm running on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history#Debian_9_(Stretch)" rel="noreferrer">Debian&nbsp;9</a> (Stretch) 64-bits with OpenJDK 1.8.0_181, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Maven" rel="noreferrer">Maven</a> 3.5.4, working behind my company proxy which I configured in my <code>~/.m2/settings.xml</code>.</p>
  
  <p>A strange thing it that the latest Surefire version is 2.22.1 if I remember correctly. I tried to specify the plugin version, but it does not get updated, otherwise there's no plugin version specification in any <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Maven#Project_Object_Model" rel="noreferrer">POM</a> (parent, grand-parent or this one).</p>
  
  <p>I managed to force Maven to change the Surefire version to the latest, but now it's even worse:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO]  T E S T S
  [INFO] -------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO]
  [INFO] Results:
  [INFO]
  [INFO] Tests run: 0, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
  
  [...]
  
  [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.22.1:test (default-test) on project recorder:     There are test failures.
  [ERROR]
  [ERROR] Please refer to /lhome/code/recorder/target/surefire-reports for the individual test results.
  [ERROR] Please refer to dump files (if any exist) [date].dump, [date]-jvmRun[N].dump and [date].dumpstream.
  [ERROR] The forked VM terminated without properly saying goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called?
  [ERROR] Command was /bin/sh -c cd /lhome/code/recorder/ &amp;&amp; /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java     '-javaagent:/lhome1/johndoe/.m2/repository/org/jacoco/org.jacoco.agent/0.7.4.201502262128/org.jacoco.agent-0.7.4.201502262128-runt    ime.jar=destfile=/lhome/code/recorder/target/jacoco.exec,append=true,includes=esa/*,excludes=**/api/**/*.class' -jar     /lhome/code/recorder/target/surefire/surefirebooter7426165516226884923.jar /lhome/code/recorder/target/surefire     2018-10-26T16-16-12_829-jvmRun1 surefire1721866559613511529tmp surefire_023400764142672144tmp
  [ERROR] Error occurred in starting fork, check output in log
  [ERROR] Process Exit Code: 1
  [ERROR] org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooterForkException: The forked VM terminated without properly saying goodbye.     VM crash or System.exit called?
  [ERROR] Command was /bin/sh -c cd /lhome/code/recorder/ &amp;&amp; /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java     '-javaagent:/lhome1/johndoe/.m2/repository/org/jacoco/org.jacoco.agent/0.7.4.201502262128/org.jacoco.agent-0.7.4.201502262128-runt    ime.jar=destfile=/lhome/code/recorder/target/jacoco.exec,append=true,includes=esa/*,excludes=**/api/**/*.class' -jar     /lhome/code/recorder/target/surefire/surefirebooter7426165516226884923.jar /lhome/code/recorder/target/surefire     2018-10-26T16-16-12_829-jvmRun1 surefire1721866559613511529tmp surefire_023400764142672144tmp
  [ERROR] Error occurred in starting fork, check output in log
  [ERROR] Process Exit Code: 1
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.fork(ForkStarter.java:669)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.run(ForkStarter.java:282)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.run(ForkStarter.java:245)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.executeProvider(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:1183)
  [ERROR]     at     org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.executeAfterPreconditionsChecked(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:1011)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.execute(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:857)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:137)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:208)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:154)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:146)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:117)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:81)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:56)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:128)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:305)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:192)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:105)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:954)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:288)
  [ERROR]     at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:192)
  [ERROR]     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  [ERROR]     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
  [ERROR]     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
  [ERROR]     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
  [ERROR]     at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
  [ERROR]     at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
  [ERROR]     at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
  [ERROR]     at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
  </code></pre>