SiteToolException: Error reading default site descriptor: ${OUTPUTENCODING}

Execute site:site

The plugin seems to look for a pom file in the directory above the project directory.

This started occurring last night for us, using maven-site-plugin:2.0-beta-7-SNAPSHOT.

Note that the project in question uses a parent POM, but does not specify a relative path.

Here is the stack trace:

[INFO] Unable to load parent project from a relative path: Could not find the model file 'c:\workdir\projects\pom.xml'. for project unknown
[INFO] Parent project loaded from repository.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] SiteToolException: Error reading default site descriptor: ${OUTPUTENCODING}

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: SiteToolException: Error reading default site descriptor: ${OUTPUTENCODING}
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:564)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:493)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:463)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:311)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:278)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:143)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:334)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:125)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:280)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: SiteToolException: Error reading default site descriptor: ${OUTPUTENCODING}
at org.apache.maven.plugins.site.AbstractSiteRenderingMojo.createSiteRenderingContext(AbstractSiteRenderingMojo.java:230)
at org.apache.maven.plugins.site.SiteMojo.renderLocale(SiteMojo.java:113)
at org.apache.maven.plugins.site.SiteMojo.execute(SiteMojo.java:96)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:443)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:539)
... 16 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.doxia.tools.SiteToolException: Error reading default site descriptor: ${OUTPUTENCODING}
at org.apache.maven.doxia.tools.DefaultSiteTool.getDecorationModel(DefaultSiteTool.java:527)

at org.apache.maven.plugins.site.AbstractSiteRenderingMojo.createSiteRenderingContext(AbstractSiteRenderingMojo.java:226)
... 20 more
Caused by: java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: ${OUTPUTENCODING}
at sun.io.Converters.getConverterClass(Converters.java:218)
at sun.io.Converters.newConverter(Converters.java:251)
at sun.io.ByteToCharConverter.getConverter(ByteToCharConverter.java:68)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder$ConverterSD.<init>(StreamDecoder.java:224)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder$ConverterSD.<init>(StreamDecoder.java:210)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.forInputStreamReader(StreamDecoder.java:77)
at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:83)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlReader.prepareReader(XmlReader.java:483)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlReader.doRawStream(XmlReader.java:466)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlReader.<init>(XmlReader.java:183)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlReader.<init>(XmlReader.java:146)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlStreamReader.<init>(XmlStreamReader.java:90)
at org.codehaus.plexus.util.ReaderFactory.newXmlReader(ReaderFactory.java:104)
at org.apache.maven.doxia.tools.DefaultSiteTool.getDecorationModel(DefaultSiteTool.java:522)

... 21 more