Description of problem: maven invoker assumes that mavenHome has parent directory. If this assumprion is false (for example maven.home is root directory "/") then NullPointerException is thrown. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.1.1-5 Additional info: Forwarded upstream: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MSHARED-278
Fixed in maven-invoker-2.1.1-6
I believe that this bug is fixed in maven-invoker-2.1.1-6, which is available in Fedora 19, so I am closing this bug now. The build containing the fix can be found at Koji: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=402215