Maven stage of build failing in Azure DevOps.Used a self hosted agent for building sample java but getting "Unhandled: EPERM: operation not permitted"

Question

Used a self-hosted agent for building sample java but getting ##[error]Unhandled: EPERM: operation not permitted, stat 'C:\\Users\\DELL\\Downloads\\apache-maven-3.6.3\\bin\\mvn.cmd'

Please help me troubleshoot this error :

Answer 1

This issue was resolved. The root cause was due to authentication issue.

I was using a self-hosted agent and my Maven was asking for authentication but it was unable to autheniticate.

How I resolved this error :

I installed maven in D drive and changed the env variables such that it points to D drive then it worked fine.