Always fails for me on my laptop:
ava.io.IOException: Failed to list: ./tmp/hornetq-unit-test/journal at org.hornetq.core.journal.impl.AbstractSequentialFactory.listFiles(AbstractSequentialFactory.java:100) at org.hornetq.core.journal.impl.JournalImpl.checkControlFile(JournalImpl.java:2975) at org.hornetq.core.journal.impl.JournalImpl.load(JournalImpl.java:1607) at org.hornetq.core.journal.impl.JournalImpl.load(JournalImpl.java:1337) at org.hornetq.tests.integration.client.JournalCrashTest.printJournal(JournalCrashTest.java:275) at org.hornetq.tests.integration.client.JournalCrashTest.testRestartJournal(JournalCrashTest.java:202)
I fixed it.
SpawnSupport wasn't setting java.io.tmpdir, and you were probably using dev-tests.