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

Try downgrading to Surefire 1.18.1. I ran into this issue tonight and spent a couple hours on it, so far it's not easily apparent why newer builds of Surefire break under Docker.

* Update *

I was having an issue with Alpine linux, but when using an Ubuntu or Debian base image everything was fine. So something within 1.21 is breaking compatibility with certain operating systems.