SONAR: update 3.7 to 4.0: maven sonar analysis failed - java.lang.LinkageError: org / slf4j / Marker

Question

I recently upgraded SONARQUBE 3.7 to 4.0.

From now on, I get the following failure for a Java project during SONAR analysis.

Fyi. There are no significant code changes or dependency changes in the project that may be related to this problem.

Any help to resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated.

GOALS FOR JENKINS: STEP 1: -Dmaven.test.skip = true -X clean install STEP 2: sonar: sonar

Additional Information:

SONARQUBE v4.0 JENKINS v1.530 sonar-maven-plugin v2.1 DB: MS SQL SERVER 2008 Project dependencies: SLF4J - v1.7.1 

Sample log data from Jenkins Job:

  [INFO] [17:01:37.375] ANALYSIS SUCCESSFUL, you can browse https://xxx/sonarqube/dashboard/index/com.xxx:project-name [INFO] [17:01:38.714] Executing post-job class org.sonar.issuesreport.ReportJob [INFO] [17:01:38.714] Executing post-job class org.sonar.plugins.core.issue.notification.SendIssueNotificationsPostJob [INFO] [17:01:38.716] Executing post-job class org.sonar.plugins.core.batch.IndexProjectPostJob [INFO] [17:01:38.764] Executing post-job class org.sonar.plugins.dbcleaner.ProjectPurgePostJob [INFO] [17:01:38.788] -> Keep one snapshot per day between 2013-10-24 and 2013-11-20 [INFO] [17:01:38.789] <- Delete snapshot: 2013-11-20T00:05:54-0500 [351284] [INFO] [17:01:39.102] <- Delete snapshot: 2013-11-20T00:15:43-0500 [351295] [INFO] [17:01:39.411] <- Delete snapshot: 2013-11-20T11:16:27-0500 [351435] [INFO] [17:01:39.718] <- Delete snapshot: 2013-11-20T11:25:26-0500 [351446] [INFO] [17:01:40.021] <- Delete snapshot: 2013-11-20T17:35:15-0500 [351457] [INFO] [17:01:40.368] <- Delete snapshot: 2013-11-20T19:01:21-0500 [351468] [INFO] [17:01:41.672] -> Keep one snapshot per week between 2012-11-22 and 2013-10-24 [INFO] [17:01:41.673] <- Delete snapshot: 2013-10-24T19:01:55-0400 [287116] [INFO] [17:01:42.023] -> Keep one snapshot per month between 2008-11-27 and 2012-11-22 [INFO] [17:01:42.024] -> Delete data prior to: 2008-11-27 [INFO] [17:01:42.027] -> Clean project-name [id=2845] [INFO] [INFO] --- sonar-maven-plugin:2.1:sonar (default-cli) @ order-services --- [INFO] SonarQube version: 4.0 INFO: Default locale: "en_US", source code encoding: "UTF-8" INFO: Work directory: /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/project-name/workspace/target/sonar INFO: SonarQube Server 4.0 [INFO] [17:01:42.543] Load batch settings [INFO] [17:01:44.280] User cache: /var/lib/jenkins/.sonar/cache [INFO] [17:01:44.284] Install plugins [INFO] [17:01:44.471] Install JDBC driver [INFO] [17:01:44.478] Create JDBC datasource for jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://xx.xx.xx.xx;databaseName=SONAR;SelectMethod=Cursor [ERROR] Error setting Log implementation. Cause: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 45.592s [INFO] Finished at: Thu Nov 21 17:01:44 EST 2013 [INFO] Final Memory: 51M/930M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:sonar-maven-plugin:2.1:sonar (default-cli) on project order-services: Can not execute SonarQube analysis: Error setting Log implementation. Cause: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: org/slf4j/Marker -> [Help 1] org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:sonar-maven-plugin:2.1:sonar (default-cli) on project order-services: Can not execute SonarQube analysis at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:216) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:318) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:153) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:555) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:214) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:158) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:414) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:357) Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: Can not execute SonarQube analysis at org.codehaus.mojo.sonar.Bootstraper.executeMojo(Bootstraper.java:109) at org.codehaus.mojo.sonar.Bootstraper.start(Bootstraper.java:67) at org.codehaus.mojo.sonar.SonarMojo.execute(SonarMojo.java:109) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:106) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:208) ... 19 more Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: Error setting Log implementation. Cause: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at org.sonar.maven.ExceptionHandling.handle(ExceptionHandling.java:37) at org.sonar.maven.SonarMojo.execute(SonarMojo.java:175) at org.codehaus.mojo.sonar.Bootstraper.executeMojo(Bootstraper.java:104) ... 23 more Caused by: org.apache.ibatis.logging.LogException: Error setting Log implementation. Cause: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at org.apache.ibatis.logging.LogFactory.setImplementation(LogFactory.java:118) at org.apache.ibatis.logging.LogFactory.useSlf4jLogging(LogFactory.java:78) at org.sonar.core.persistence.MyBatis.start(MyBatis.java:86) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.picocontainer.lifecycle.ReflectionLifecycleStrategy.invokeMethod(ReflectionLifecycleStrategy.java:110) at org.picocontainer.lifecycle.ReflectionLifecycleStrategy.start(ReflectionLifecycleStrategy.java:89) at org.picocontainer.injectors.AbstractInjectionFactory$LifecycleAdapter.start(AbstractInjectionFactory.java:84) at org.picocontainer.behaviors.AbstractBehavior.start(AbstractBehavior.java:169) at org.picocontainer.behaviors.Stored$RealComponentLifecycle.start(Stored.java:132) at org.picocontainer.behaviors.Stored.start(Stored.java:110) at org.picocontainer.DefaultPicoContainer.potentiallyStartAdapter(DefaultPicoContainer.java:1015) at org.picocontainer.DefaultPicoContainer.startAdapters(DefaultPicoContainer.java:1008) at org.picocontainer.DefaultPicoContainer.start(DefaultPicoContainer.java:766) at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:91) at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:77) at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.startBatch(Batch.java:92) at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.execute(Batch.java:74) at org.sonar.runner.batch.IsolatedLauncher.execute(IsolatedLauncher.java:45) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.sonar.runner.impl.BatchLauncher$1.delegateExecution(BatchLauncher.java:87) at org.sonar.runner.impl.BatchLauncher$1.run(BatchLauncher.java:75) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.sonar.runner.impl.BatchLauncher.doExecute(BatchLauncher.java:69) at org.sonar.runner.impl.BatchLauncher.execute(BatchLauncher.java:50) at org.sonar.runner.api.EmbeddedRunner.doExecute(EmbeddedRunner.java:102) at org.sonar.runner.api.Runner.execute(Runner.java:90) at org.sonar.maven.SonarMojo.execute(SonarMojo.java:173) ... 24 more Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526) at org.apache.ibatis.logging.LogFactory.setImplementation(LogFactory.java:114) ... 56 more Caused by: java.lang.LinkageError: org/slf4j/Marker at org.apache.ibatis.logging.slf4j.Slf4jImpl.<init>(Slf4jImpl.java:34) ... 61 more [ERROR] [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException Sonar analysis completed: FAILURE Build step 'Sonar' changed build result to FAILURE Build step 'Sonar' marked build as failure Email was triggered for: Failure Sending email for trigger: Failure Sending email to: [e-mail] Finished: FAILURE