title: "Forked Java VM exited abnormally" error from junit tests
body: <p>I have a java junit test that passes when run alone on a development machine. We also have a hudson job which runs all the tests, invoked via ant, on a Mac OS X 10.4 node with Java 1.5. The test was passing in the hudson build until recently but now (with no related code changes) one test fails everytime with the following error:</p>
  
  <p>Error Message</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Forked Java VM exited abnormally.
    Please note the time in the report
    does not reflect the time until the VM
    exit.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Stacktrace</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>junit.framework.AssertionFailedError:
    Forked Java VM exited abnormally.
    Please note the time in the report
    does not reflect the time until the VM
    exit.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>googling shows many others seem to have run into the same problem but there I couldn't find any answer.</p>