There was a bug (JENKINS-10831) back in 1.427 that caused a failure but that had does not look like your issue. I just double checked on my system on 1.441 and that does build a single submodule correctly.

However I just noticed that I was using maven 2.2.1 for builds (oops thought I had changed to 3.0.3!) and if I switch to 3.0.3 I get the same aborted error as you.

Started by user Richard Mortimer
Building remotely on bishop
$ /opt/jenkins/slave/tools/JDK_6/bin/java -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -cp /opt/jenkins/slave/maven3-agent.jar:/opt/jenkins/slave/tools/Maven_3.0.3/boot/plexus-classworlds-2.4.jar org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.agent.Maven3Main /opt/jenkins/slave/tools/Maven_3.0.3 /usr/share/jenkslav/slave.jar /opt/jenkins/slave/maven3-interceptor.jar 56773
<===[JENKINS REMOTING CAPACITY]===>channel started
Finished: ABORTED

The jenkins logfile has the following error in it.

02-Dec-2011 13:03:56 hudson.model.Run run
INFO: tcserv » tcear #843 main build action completed: ABORTED
02-Dec-2011 13:03:56 hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread run
SEVERE: I/O error in channel Channel to Maven [/opt/jenkins/slave/tools/JDK_6/bin/java, -Xmx1024m, -XX:MaxPermSize=512m, -cp, /opt/jenkins/slave/maven3-agent.jar:/opt/jenkins/slave/tools/Maven_3.0.3/boot/plexus-classworlds-2.4.jar, org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.agent.Maven3Main, /opt/jenkins/slave/tools/Maven_3.0.3, /usr/share/jenkslav/slave.jar, /opt/jenkins/slave/maven3-interceptor.jar, 56773]
java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
        at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:1115)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2570)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1314)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:368)
        at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:1109)

Building single modules with Maven 3 has never worked, as it wasn't implemented since the beginning of the Maven 3 support.

How much work would it be?

Is anyone actively looking into this?
It is one of the stumbling blocks for us in order to upgrade to maven 3.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Is maven 3 support planned?

Any news on this?

Hi everyone. I registered this issue in the "proposing" section on FreedomSponsors. This means that if you need this issue that bad, you can go to http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/245/regression-cannot-build-a-single-module-in-a-maven-multi-module-job-with-maven-3 and offer a few bucks for it.

I've submitted a pull request to resolve this issue.

https://github.com/jenkinsci/maven-plugin/pull/9

That last pull request didn't want to build in cloudbees, so I applied my changes to a fresh branch and submitted a new pull request, which built successfully.

https://github.com/jenkinsci/maven-plugin/pull/10

https://jenkins.ci.cloudbees.com/job/plugins/job/maven-plugin/36/

Pull Request #10 has passed the build. Is a code review necessary for acceptance of the pull request into the next release?

It would be a good idea to have a few people test it before pulling it in for release. The changes look quite extensive, so we should make sure everything is working as expected.

As near as I can tell, this hasn't been merged into master yet, so this should probably be left open?

Yes, keep it open. I'm going to create a new pull request this weekend, one that will hopefully be easier to discuss in relationship to this particular issue.

Mark Adamcin, any news on this front?

any news?

Code changed in jenkins
User: Mathias Åhsberg
Path:
src/main/java/hudson/maven/MavenBuild.java
src/test/java/hudson/maven/AbstractMaven3xBuildTest.java
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/maven-plugin/b3f08bd4411cbf138db34de879c9af638cc7ac95
Log:
JENKINS-11964 Enable single module build for Maven3.

Pull Request #9 has been the source for the implementation. However, only parts that was needed to enable single module build for Maven3 projects have been used.

Code changed in jenkins
User: Olivier Lamy
Path:
src/main/java/hudson/maven/MavenBuild.java
src/test/java/hudson/maven/AbstractMaven3xBuildTest.java
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/maven-plugin/eceb0289ce3a8ffee6792148fa5aa2ed0032e462
Log:
Merge pull request #29 from goober/master

JENKINS-11964 Enable single module build for Maven3.

Compare: https://github.com/jenkinsci/maven-plugin/compare/299ccd301ea2...eceb0289ce3a

The wiki page for Maven plugin says that it the fix has made it into 2.7 release. So is this issue Resolved?