Pdf report is not generated during Sonar analysis due to Embedded error : Any host configuration

Question

Today all of a sudden i face a new error which is shown below. this error comes while generating a pdf report.
Here the sonar dashboard is generated but not pdf report and the build is failing in Jenkins due to the below error.
I am using Sonarqube 4.5.1 , maven 2.2.1, sonar-maven-plugin-1.0, jdk 1.7.

 ANALYSIS SUCCESSFUL, you can browse http://localhost:9000/sonar/dashboard/index/com.web:webnet:test
[INFO] [06:55:09.248] Executing post-job class org.sonar.report.pdf.batch.PDFPostJob
[INFO] [06:55:09.249] Executing decorator: PDF Report
[INFO] [06:55:09.253] Team executive report type selected
[ERROR] ANY_HOST_CONFIGURATION
[JENKINS] Archiving disabled
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Can not execute Sonar

Embedded error: ANY_HOST_CONFIGURATION
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Can not execute Sonar
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:719)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:569)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:539)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:387)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:284)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:180)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutorInterceptor.execute(LifecycleExecutorInterceptor.java:65)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:328)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:138)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362)
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.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at hudson.maven.agent.Main.launch(Main.java:204)
at hudson.maven.MavenBuilder.call(MavenBuilder.java:154)
at hudson.maven.Maven2Builder.call(Maven2Builder.java:79)
at hudson.maven.Maven2Builder.call(Maven2Builder.java:55)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:121)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:49)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:324)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:68)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: Can not execute Sonar
at org.codehaus.mojo.sonar.Bootstraper.executeMojo(Bootstraper.java:103)
at org.codehaus.mojo.sonar.Bootstraper.start(Bootstraper.java:79)
at org.codehaus.mojo.sonar.SonarMojo.execute(SonarMojo.java:88)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:490)
at hudson.maven.agent.PluginManagerInterceptor.executeMojo(PluginManagerInterceptor.java:182)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:694)
... 27 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: ANY_HOST_CONFIGURATION
at org.sonar.maven.ExceptionHandling.handle(ExceptionHandling.java:37)
at org.sonar.maven.SonarMojo.execute(SonarMojo.java:175)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:490)
at hudson.maven.agent.PluginManagerInterceptor.executeMojo(PluginManagerInterceptor.java:182)
at org.codehaus.mojo.sonar.Bootstraper.executeMojo(Bootstraper.java:98)
... 32 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: ANY_HOST_CONFIGURATION
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.HttpConnectionManagerParams.setDefaultMaxConnectionsPerHost(HttpConnectionManagerParams.java:86)
at org.sonar.wsclient.connectors.HttpClient3Connector.createClient(HttpClient3Connector.java:56)
at org.sonar.wsclient.connectors.HttpClient3Connector.<init>(HttpClient3Connector.java:44)
at org.sonar.wsclient.connectors.ConnectorFactory.create(ConnectorFactory.java:30)
at org.sonar.wsclient.Sonar.create(Sonar.java:105)
at org.sonar.report.pdf.PDFReporter.getProject(PDFReporter.java:128)
at org.sonar.report.pdf.PDFReporter.getReport(PDFReporter.java:83)
at org.sonar.report.pdf.batch.PDFGenerator.execute(PDFGenerator.java:100)
at org.sonar.report.pdf.batch.PDFPostJob.executeOn(PDFPostJob.java:76)
at org.sonar.batch.phases.PostJobsExecutor.execute(PostJobsExecutor.java:72)
at org.sonar.batch.phases.PostJobsExecutor.execute(PostJobsExecutor.java:61)
at org.sonar.batch.phases.PhaseExecutor.execute(PhaseExecutor.java:132)
at org.sonar.batch.scan.ModuleScanContainer.doAfterStart(ModuleScanContainer.java:194)
at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:92)
at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:77)
at org.sonar.batch.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scan(ProjectScanContainer.java:233)
at org.sonar.batch.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scanRecursively(ProjectScanContainer.java:228)
at org.sonar.batch.scan.ProjectScanContainer.doAfterStart(ProjectScanContainer.java:221)
at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:92)
at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:77)
at org.sonar.batch.scan.ScanTask.scan(ScanTask.java:64)
at org.sonar.batch.scan.ScanTask.execute(ScanTask.java:51)
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrap.TaskContainer.doAfterStart(TaskContainer.java:125)
at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:92)
at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:77)
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrap.BootstrapContainer.executeTask(BootstrapContainer.java:173)
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.executeTask(Batch.java:95)
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.execute(Batch.java:67)
at org.sonar.runner.batch.IsolatedLauncher.execute(IsolatedLauncher.java:48)
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:100)
at org.sonar.maven.SonarMojo.execute(SonarMojo.java:173)
... 35 more
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2 minutes 33 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Feb 04 06:55:09 CET 2016
[INFO] Final Memory: 53M/424M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
channel stopped
Warning: you have no plugins providing access control for builds, so falling back to legacy behavior of permitting any downstream builds to be triggered
Finished: FAILURE

I have googled it, but haven't found any solutions to test.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Possible Suggestions to your question

1. Sonarqube 4.5.1 Pdf plugin is deprecated and the information can be found in this link.
2. It is better if you can handle this pdf generation plugin in your Maven (POM.xml).
3. Also, I would recommend to go through the Sonarqube 4.5.1 Plugin version compatibility matrix chart, as sonar is very sensitive in handling versions.
4. I found this example for the fix for Sonarqube 4.5.1 PDF Reporting plugin in this link. If you want you can add this as a dependency in your POM.xml file.