Description of problem: There are several tests occasionally failing (always together) from rg.jboss.as.test.clustering.extended.ejb2 package: org.jboss.as.test.clustering.extended.ejb2.stateful.passivation.ClusterPassivationTestCase(UDP).org.jboss.as.test.clustering.extended.ejb2.stateful.passivation.ClusterPassivationTestCase org.jboss.as.test.clustering.extended.ejb2.stateful.passivation.dd.ClusterPassivationDDTestCase(UDP).org.jboss.as.test.clustering.extended.ejb2.stateful.passivation.dd.ClusterPassivationDDTestCase org.jboss.as.test.clustering.extended.ejb2.stateful.remote.failover.RemoteEJBClientStatefulBeanFailoverTestCase(UDP).org.jboss.as.test.clustering.extended.ejb2.stateful.remote.failover.RemoteEJBClientStatefulBeanFailoverTestCase org.jboss.as.test.clustering.extended.ejb2.stateful.remote.failover.dd.RemoteEJB2ClientStatefulBeanFailoverDDTestCase(UDP).org.jboss.as.test.clustering.extended.ejb2.stateful.remote.failover.dd.RemoteEJB2ClientStatefulBeanFailoverDDTestCase org.jboss.as.test.clustering.extended.ejb2.stateless.RemoteStatelessFailoverTestCase(UDP).org.jboss.as.test.clustering.extended.ejb2.stateless.RemoteStatelessFailoverTestCase Full stacktrace looks like this: Error Message Arquillian has previously been attempted initialized, but failed. See cause for previous exception Stacktrace java.lang.RuntimeException: Arquillian has previously been attempted initialized, but failed. See cause for previous exception at org.jboss.arquillian.junit.Arquillian.run(Arquillian.java:85) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.execute(JUnit4Provider.java:234) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeTestSet(JUnit4Provider.java:133) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.invoke(JUnit4Provider.java:114) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.maven.surefire.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethodWithArray(ReflectionUtils.java:188) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory$ProviderProxy.invoke(ProviderFactory.java:166) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory.invokeProvider(ProviderFactory.java:86) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:101) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:74) Caused by: org.jboss.arquillian.container.spi.ConfigurationException: jbossHome '/hudson_workspace/workspace/eap-6x-jgroups-tcpgossip-hpux-matrix/BITS/-d64/jdk/jdk16_hpux/label/hpux11v3/jboss-eap-6.2-src/testsuite/integration/clust/target/jbossas-clustering-${cacheMode}-udp-0' must exist at org.jboss.arquillian.container.spi.client.deployment.Validate.configurationDirectoryExists(Validate.java:93) at org.jboss.as.arquillian.container.DistributionContainerConfiguration.validate(DistributionContainerConfiguration.java:103) at org.jboss.as.arquillian.container.managed.ManagedContainerConfiguration.validate(ManagedContainerConfiguration.java:67) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.ContainerImpl.createDeployableConfiguration(ContainerImpl.java:114) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.ContainerImpl.setup(ContainerImpl.java:180) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$7.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:149) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$7.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:145) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.forContainer(ContainerLifecycleController.java:255) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.setupContainer(ContainerLifecycleController.java:144) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:99) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:81) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.ContainerDeploymentContextHandler.createContainerContext(ContainerDeploymentContextHandler.java:57) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:88) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:135) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:115) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventImpl.fire(EventImpl.java:67) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$1.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:62) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$1.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:55) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.forEachContainer(ContainerLifecycleController.java:209) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.setupContainers(ContainerLifecycleController.java:54) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:99) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:81) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:135) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:115) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventImpl.fire(EventImpl.java:67) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.test.impl.client.ContainerEventController.execute(ContainerEventController.java:85) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:99) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:81) at org.jboss.arquillian.test.impl.TestContextHandler.createSuiteContext(TestContextHandler.java:60) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:88) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:135) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:115) at org.jboss.arquillian.test.impl.EventTestRunnerAdaptor.beforeSuite(EventTestRunnerAdaptor.java:68) at org.jboss.arquillian.junit.Arquillian.run(Arquillian.java:97) ... 12 more 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Looks like ${cacheMode} didn't resolve.
The exception mentioned above is gone.
Documentation: this is internal aspect of the server, we do not want to document this.