maven arhtype take a lot of time

I'm trying to generate a simple maven project from the command line (I have maven 3.0.4 on my ubuntu 12.04 machine)
maven take a very very long time to start n I had this output for a 20 mins to start the Interactive mode !!

Please what is the problem (It's a bug or what ) ?

Very strange, maybe it's a problem with the "Interactive Mode". Are you running it from bash?

The same Maven here (3.0.4), but Ubuntu 12.10.

After that "Generating project in Interactive mode", the plugin prints a lot of archetypes, and makes some questions (groupId, artifactId, version), without any interval...

bruno@brunoasp:~/testes$ mvn archetype:generate
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]                                                                         
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] >>> maven-archetype-plugin:2.2:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom >>>
[INFO] 
[INFO] <<< maven-archetype-plugin:2.2:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom <<<
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-archetype-plugin:2.2:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom ---
[INFO] Generating project in Interactive mode
[INFO] No archetype defined. Using maven-archetype-quickstart 
(org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-quickstart:1.0)
Choose archetype:
1: remote -> br.gov.frameworkdemoiselle.archetypes:demoiselle-jsf-jpa 
(Archetype for web applications (JSF + JPA) using Demoiselle Framework)
2: remote -> br.gov.frameworkdemoiselle.archetypes:demoiselle-minimal 
(Basic archetype for generic applications using Demoiselle Framework)
3: remote -> br.gov.frameworkdemoiselle.archetypes:demoiselle-vaadin-jpa 
(Archetype for Vaadin web applications)
...
691: remote -> uk.ac.rdg.resc:edal-ncwms-based-webapp (-)
Choose a number or apply filter (format: [groupId:]artifactId, case sensitive contains): 236:

Regards,
Bruno

Was this the first time you ran mvn? On the first run it will download numerous components to your local repository before doing anything.

Also, it would help if you posted the command line you used.

yeah, My first time from the command line (bash), but I used it a lot from netbeans (without any problem, fast enough) , all the core plug-ins are available on local
I simply run it in an interactive mode
I get the message

and after long boring minutes I have 698 archetypes to choose between them , it's work but after 8 or 10 minutes .

I suspect that NetBeans is using a different local repository location than what is being used from the command line. So what is happening is that you are waiting for the archetypes to download before they can be listed. Usually, if you know what archetype you want, it is best to supply if on the command line.