See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1588 The workaround is to update `maven-surefire-plugin` to version 3.0.0-M1. ``` $ mvn clean install ... [INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.22.0:test (default-test) @ biojava-core --- [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] T E S T S [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] [INFO] Results: [INFO] [INFO] Tests run: 0, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0 [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Reactor Summary for biojava 5.1.2-SNAPSHOT: [INFO] [INFO] biojava ............................................ SUCCESS [ 0.296 s] [INFO] biojava-core ....................................... FAILURE [ 4.512 s] [INFO] biojava-alignment .................................. SKIPPED [INFO] biojava-structure .................................. SKIPPED [INFO] biojava-structure-gui .............................. SKIPPED [INFO] biojava-genome ..................................... SKIPPED [INFO] biojava-modfinder .................................. SKIPPED [INFO] biojava-ws ......................................... SKIPPED [INFO] biojava-protein-disorder ........................... SKIPPED [INFO] biojava-aa-prop .................................... SKIPPED [INFO] biojava-survival ................................... SKIPPED [INFO] biojava-ontology ................................... SKIPPED [INFO] biojava-integrationtest ............................ SKIPPED [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 5.467 s [INFO] Finished at: 2018-11-27T15:43:04-06:00 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.22.0:test (default-test) on project biojava-core: There are test failures. [ERROR] [ERROR] Please refer to /working/biojava/biojava-core/target/surefire-reports for the individual test results. [ERROR] Please refer to dump files (if any exist) [date]-jvmRun[N].dump, [date].dumpstream and [date]-jvmRun[N].dumpstream. [ERROR] ExecutionException The forked VM terminated without properly saying goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called? [ERROR] Command was /bin/sh -c cd /working/biojava/biojava-core && /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java -Xmx1500M -jar /working/biojava/biojava-core/target/surefire/surefirebooter686985483942722344.jar /working/biojava/biojava-core/target/surefire 2018-11-27T15-43-02_513-jvmRun1 surefire2664357915002657397tmp surefire_04309217267636059274tmp [ERROR] Error occurred in starting fork, check output in log ```