title: Maven Surefire: Error occured in starting fork
body: <p>When I am trying to  run </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>mvn test</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I always get the Error Message that maven-surefire error ocurred in starring fork. It has something to do with my local settings, on my colleagues PC it's working fine. I hope that somebody has an idea what is wrong with my pc :)</p>
  
  <p>A part of the Error Message:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><blockquote>
    <p>[ERROR] Failed to execute goal
        org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.4:test
        (default-test) on project exercise00-assignment01: Error occurred in
        starting fork, check output in log -> [Help 1]
            org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal
        org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.4:test
        (default-test) on project exercise00-assignment01: Error occurred in
        starting fork, check output in log</p>
  </blockquote></li>
  <li><blockquote>
  <pre><code>Caused by:
      org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooterForkException: Error
      occurred in starting fork, check output in log
          at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.fork
      (ForkStarter.java:284)
  </code></pre>
  </blockquote></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I am using win10, jdk: 1.8.0_202, maven: 3.6.0</p>
  
  <p>My <strong>pom.xml</strong></p>
  
  
  
  <pre><code>&lt;project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"&gt;
      &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
  
      &lt;groupId&gt;at.tuwien.swtesting&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;exercise00-assignment01&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;1.0.0-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;packaging&gt;jar&lt;/packaging&gt; 
  
      &lt;name&gt;01-RingBufferTest&lt;/name&gt;
      &lt;description&gt;Entry exercise.&lt;/description&gt;
  
      &lt;properties&gt;
          &lt;project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;
          &lt;maven.compiler.source&gt;1.8&lt;/maven.compiler.source&gt;
          &lt;maven.compiler.target&gt;1.8&lt;/maven.compiler.target&gt;
      &lt;/properties&gt;
  
      &lt;dependencies&gt;  
          &lt;dependency&gt;  
              &lt;groupId&gt;junit&lt;/groupId&gt;  
              &lt;artifactId&gt;junit&lt;/artifactId&gt;  
              &lt;version&gt;4.12&lt;/version&gt;  
              &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;  
          &lt;/dependency&gt;  
      &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>