The forked VM terminated without saying properly goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called

Question

Please help me to solve this issue. I do not exactly understand what the error in the log means.

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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Total time: 21.749s
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Apr 24 10:10:20 IST 2014
[INFO] Final Memory: 15M/37M
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[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.15:test (default-test) on project samples.simpleforwarding: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.15:test failed: The forked VM terminated without saying properly goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called ?
[ERROR] Command wascmd.exe /X /C ""C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_55\jre\bin\java" -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -jar E:\OpenDayLight\controller\opendaylight\samples\simpleforwarding\target\surefire\surefirebooter53410321571238933.jar E:\OpenDayLight\controller\opendaylight\samples\simpleforwarding\target\surefire\surefire86076271125218001tmp E:\OpenDayLight\controller\opendaylight\samples\simpleforwarding\target\surefire\surefire_01846991116135903536tmp"
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginExecutionException

Answer 1

I had the same problem and solved by adding:

<argLine>-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m</argLine>

The whole plugin element is:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <configuration>
    <forkCount>3</forkCount>
    <reuseForks>true</reuseForks>
    <argLine>-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m</argLine>
  </configuration>
</plugin>