I am trying to compile Spark 3.5.0 and make a distribution that supports Spark Connect and Kubernetes. The compilation seems to complete correctly, but when I try to run the Spark Connect server on kubernetes I get a "NoClassDefFoundError" as follows:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/sparkproject/guava/util/concurrent/internal/InternalFutureFailureAccess     at java.base/java.lang. ClassLoader .defineClass1(Native Method)     at java.base/java.lang. ClassLoader .defineClass( ClassLoader .java:1017)     at java.base/java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:150)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.defineClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:862)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.findClassOnClassPathOrNull(BuiltinClassLoader.java:760)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClassOrNull(BuiltinClassLoader.java:681)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:639)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:188)     at java.base/java.lang. ClassLoader .loadClass( ClassLoader .java:525)     at java.base/java.lang. ClassLoader .defineClass1(Native Method)     at java.base/java.lang. ClassLoader .defineClass( ClassLoader .java:1017)     at java.base/java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:150)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.defineClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:862)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.findClassOnClassPathOrNull(BuiltinClassLoader.java:760)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClassOrNull(BuiltinClassLoader.java:681)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:639)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:188)     at java.base/java.lang. ClassLoader .loadClass( ClassLoader .java:525)     at java.base/java.lang. ClassLoader .defineClass1(Native Method)     at java.base/java.lang. ClassLoader .defineClass( ClassLoader .java:1017)     at java.base/java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:150)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.defineClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:862)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.findClassOnClassPathOrNull(BuiltinClassLoader.java:760)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClassOrNull(BuiltinClassLoader.java:681)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:639)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:188)     at java.base/java.lang. ClassLoader .loadClass( ClassLoader .java:525)     at org.sparkproject.guava.cache.LocalCache$LoadingValueReference.<init>(LocalCache.java:3511)     at org.sparkproject.guava.cache.LocalCache$LoadingValueReference.<init>(LocalCache.java:3515)     at org.sparkproject.guava.cache.LocalCache$Segment.lockedGetOrLoad(LocalCache.java:2168)     at org.sparkproject.guava.cache.LocalCache$Segment.get(LocalCache.java:2079)     at org.sparkproject.guava.cache.LocalCache.get(LocalCache.java:4011)     at org.sparkproject.guava.cache.LocalCache.getOrLoad(LocalCache.java:4034)     at org.sparkproject.guava.cache.LocalCache$LocalLoadingCache.get(LocalCache.java:5010)     at org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManagerId$.getCachedBlockManagerId(BlockManagerId.scala:146)     at org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManagerId$.apply(BlockManagerId.scala:127)     at org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManager.initialize(BlockManager.scala:536)     at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:625)     at org.apache.spark.SparkContext$.getOrCreate(SparkContext.scala:2888)     at org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession$Builder.$anonfun$getOrCreate$2(SparkSession.scala:1099)     at scala.Option.getOrElse(Option.scala:189)     at org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession$Builder.getOrCreate(SparkSession.scala:1093)     at org.apache.spark.sql.connect.service.SparkConnectServer$.main(SparkConnectServer.scala:34)     at org.apache.spark.sql.connect.service.SparkConnectServer.main(SparkConnectServer.scala)     at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)     at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)     at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)     at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:568)     at org.apache.spark.deploy.JavaMainApplication.start(SparkApplication.scala:52)     at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.org$apache$spark$deploy$SparkSubmit$$runMain(SparkSubmit.scala:1029)     at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.doRunMain$1(SparkSubmit.scala:194)     at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.submit(SparkSubmit.scala:217)     at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.doSubmit(SparkSubmit.scala:91)     at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$$anon$2.doSubmit(SparkSubmit.scala:1120)     at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:1129)     at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.sparkproject.guava.util.concurrent.internal.InternalFutureFailureAccess     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:641)     at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:188)     at java.base/java.lang. ClassLoader .loadClass( ClassLoader .java:525)     ... 56 more

My build command is as follows:

export MAVEN_OPTS= "-Xss256m -Xmx8g -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=2g" ./dev/make-distribution.sh --name spark --pip -Pscala-2.12 -Pconnect -Pkubernetes -Phive -Phive-thriftserver -Phadoop-3 -Dhadoop.version= "3.3.4" -Dhive.version= "2.3.9" -Dhive23.version= "2.3.9" -Dhive.version. short = "2.3"

I am building Spark using Debian Bookworm, with Java 8 8u382 and Maven 3.8.8.
I get the same error even when I omitt the -Pconnect profile from Maven, and simply add the "org.apache.spark:spark-connect_2.12:3.5.0" jar with the appropriate spark config. On the other hand, if I download the pre-built spark package, and add the spark-connect jar, this error does not appear.
What could I be possibly missing in my build environment? I have omitted the  yarn, mesos and sparkr profiles (which are used in the distributed built) on purpose, but I do not see how these affect spark connect.

Any help will be appreciated!