k3po start task fails on Travis CI with could not resolve maven dependencies

[AdrianCozma]

on Travis CI the build is failing(sometimes) because of the k3po:start task failing to complete

Running "k3po:start" (k3po) task
resolving parent: org.kaazing:k3po.parent:3.0.0-alpha-5
resolving parent: org.kaazing:k3po.parent:3.0.0-alpha-5
resolving parent: org.kaazing:community:2.15
resolving parent: org.kaazing:community:2.15
resolving parent: org.kaazing:community:2.15
resolving parent: org.kaazing:k3po.parent:3.0.0-alpha-5
resolving parent: org.kaazing:community:2.15
resolving parent: org.kaazing:k3po.parent:3.0.0-alpha-5
resolving parent: org.kaazing:community:2.15
resolving parent: de.odysseus.juel:juel-parent:2.2.7
resolving parent: de.odysseus.juel:juel-parent:2.2.7
resolving parent: com.fasterxml:oss-parent:4
resolving parent: com.fasterxml:oss-parent:4
resolving parent: org.sonatype.oss:oss-parent:7
resolving parent: org.sonatype.oss:oss-parent:7
resolving parent: org.sonatype.oss:oss-parent:7
resolving parent: org.antlr:antlr4-master:4.2.2
resolving parent: org.sonatype.oss:oss-parent:7
resolving parent: org.sonatype.oss:oss-parent:7
resolving parent: com.fasterxml:oss-parent:4
resolving parent: org.sonatype.oss:oss-parent:7
resolving parent: org.antlr:antlr4-master:4.2.2
resolving parent: org.sonatype.oss:oss-parent:7
resolving parent: org.sonatype.oss:oss-parent:7
could not resolve maven dependencies [ [Error: Unencoded <
  Line: 372
  Column: 41
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The failure should also cause the grunt task to fail; current behavior is:

The command "grunt sauceTest" exited with 0.

please find full log here

[AdrianCozma]

the error is different but after some investigation it seems like the cause is the same as for #7 closing this issue as a duplicate