When trying to use settings.xml which declares <localRepository>/my/path</localRepository> element, the build will fail with: $ mvn --settings my-settings.xml clean install -DskipTests -e ... [INFO] --- wildfly:5.1.5.Final:provision (server-provisioning) @ wildfly-core-testsuite-standalone --- [INFO] Provisioning server in /tmp/wildfly-core/testsuite/standalone/target/wildfly-core [INFO] Resolving feature-packs [INFO] Installing packages [INFO] Resolving artifacts [INFO] Generating configurations [INFO] Delayed generation, waiting... SLF4J(W): No SLF4J providers were found. SLF4J(W): Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation SLF4J(W): See https: //www.slf4j.org/codes.html#noProviders for further details. Forked embedded process has failed with the following error: org.wildfly.galleon.plugin.server.ConfigGeneratorException: Failed to start embedded server at org.wildfly.galleon.plugin.config.generator.BaseConfigGenerator.doStartServer(BaseConfigGenerator.java:219) at org.wildfly.galleon.plugin.config.generator.ForkedConfigGenerator.executeScript(ForkedConfigGenerator.java:76) at org.wildfly.galleon.plugin.config.generator.ForkedConfigGenerator.forkedForEmbedded(ForkedConfigGenerator.java:46) at org.wildfly.galleon.plugin.server.ForkedProcessRunner.main(ForkedProcessRunner.java:56) Caused by: org.wildfly.galleon.plugin.server.ConfigGeneratorException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at org.wildfly.galleon.plugin.config.generator.ServerBridge.embed_createStandalone(ServerBridge.java:236) at org.wildfly.galleon.plugin.config.generator.BaseConfigGenerator.doStartServer(BaseConfigGenerator.java:215) ... 3 more Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:568) at org.wildfly.galleon.plugin.config.generator.ServerBridge.embed_createStandalone(ServerBridge.java:234) ... 4 more Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: WFLYEMB0014: Cannot load module org.wildfly.embedded from: local module loader @729d991e (finder: local module finder @31fa1761 (roots: /tmp/wildfly-core/testsuite/standalone/target/wildfly-core/modules,/tmp/wildfly-core/testsuite/standalone/target/wildfly-core/modules/system/layers/base)) at org.wildfly.core.embedded.EmbeddedProcessFactory.createStandaloneServer(EmbeddedProcessFactory.java:143) at org.wildfly.core.embedded.EmbeddedProcessFactory.createStandaloneServer(EmbeddedProcessFactory.java:91) ... 9 more Caused by: org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoadException: Error loading module from /tmp/wildfly-core/testsuite/standalone/target/wildfly-core/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/as/host-controller/main/module.xml at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseModuleXml(ModuleXmlParser.java:336) at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseModuleXml(ModuleXmlParser.java:292) at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseModuleXml(ModuleXmlParser.java:253) at org.jboss.modules.LocalModuleFinder.parseModuleXmlFile(LocalModuleFinder.java:250) at org.jboss.modules.LocalModuleFinder.lambda$findModule$1(LocalModuleFinder.java:195) at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:712) at org.jboss.modules.LocalModuleFinder.findModule(LocalModuleFinder.java:195) at org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoader.findModule0(ModuleLoader.java:700) at org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoader.findModule(ModuleLoader.java:693) at org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoader.loadModuleLocal(ModuleLoader.java:503) at org.jboss.modules.DelegatingModuleLoader.preloadModule(DelegatingModuleLoader.java:57) at org.jboss.modules.Module.addPaths(Module.java:1290) at org.jboss.modules.Module.link(Module.java:1660) at org.jboss.modules.Module.relinkIfNecessary(Module.java:1688) at org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoader.loadModule(ModuleLoader.java:303) at org.wildfly.core.embedded.EmbeddedProcessFactory.createStandaloneServer(EmbeddedProcessFactory.java:141) ... 10 more Caused by: org.jboss.modules.xml.XmlPullParserException: Failed to resolve artifact 'org.wildfly.core:wildfly-host-controller:31.0.0.Beta2-SNAPSHOT' (position: END_TAG seen ... "org.wildfly.core:wildfly-host-controller:31.0.0.Beta2-SNAPSHOT" />... @15:90) at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseArtifact(ModuleXmlParser.java:1049) at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseResources(ModuleXmlParser.java:936) at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseModuleContents(ModuleXmlParser.java:696) at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseDocument(ModuleXmlParser.java:468) at org.jboss.modules.xml.ModuleXmlParser.parseModuleXml(ModuleXmlParser.java:334) ... 25 more [INFO] Overall Galleon provisioning took 3.840 seconds So something with jboss-modules and thin server (modules loaded from maven repo) There is a workaround, whenever settings.xml has a <localRepository> , the same path need to be provided also to mvn command via -Dmaven.repo.local: $ cat my-settings.xml | head -5 <?xml version= "1.0" encoding= "UTF-8" ?> <settings xmlns= "http: //maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi= "http: //www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation= "http: //maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd" > <localRepository>/tmp/localrepo</localRepository> $ mvn --settings my-settings.xml clean install -DskipTests -e -Dmaven.repo.local=/tmp/localrepo But this feels like a bug, galleon / jboss-modules should be able to work with standard maven feature like localRepository defined in settings.xml