Maven- Error building pom

While trying mvn clean install I got the following error:

[INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).


Project ID: org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-components:pom:1.1.15

Reason: Cannot find parent: org.codehaus.plexus:plexus for project: org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-components:pom:1.1.15 for project org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-components:pom:1.1.15

The same works when I user mvn clean install as root user. What may be the possible reason?

Follow these steps:-

• Update maven to version 3.
• Deleted the .m2/org/codehaus folder.

• Build the project.

  Issue fixed!