Building docker image - Gradle build daemon disappeared unexpectedly

Question

SO family, I've been working on a project using Docker, Gradle, and Kotlin.The issue is whenever I try to build a new docker image to deploy my latest changes, it gives an error

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. What went wrong: Gradle build daemon disappeared unexpectedly (it may have been killed or may have crashed)

I've tried to clear the memory multiple times by removing extra docker images and containers but couldn't succeed. The complete log file is attached.

Step 1/19 : FROM xyz-image as build
 ---> 1ed71d09935d
Step 2/19 : RUN apk --no-cache --update add postgresql-client
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 8a7e3e5df31c
Step 3/19 : ENV APP_HOME=/workspace
 ---> Using cache
 ---> d46fa561ccbf
Step 4/19 : WORKDIR $APP_HOME
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 438c463befb9
Step 5/19 : COPY . .
 ---> 83e81d9f7ee7
Step 6/19 : RUN chmod 777 ./gradlew &&  ./gradlew clean build --stacktrace test jacocoTestReport sonarqube
 ---> Running in bc7a8bc75fed
./gradlew: line 1: Content#!/usr/bin/env: not found
Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.4.1-bin.zip
...................................................................................

Welcome to Gradle 5.4.1!

Here are the highlights of this release:
 - Run builds with JDK12
 - New API for Incremental Tasks
 - Updates to native projects, including Swift 5 support

For more details see https://docs.gradle.org/5.4.1/release-notes.html

Starting a Gradle Daemon (subsequent builds will be faster)
> Task :clean UP-TO-DATE
> Task :compileKotlin

The message received from the daemon indicates that the daemon has disappeared.
Build request sent: Build{id=e70a3593-58dd-4d13-9cc0-3064a72c8175, currentDir=/workspace}
Attempting to read last messages from the daemon log...
Daemon pid: 49
  log file: /root/.gradle/daemon/5.4.1/daemon-49.out.log
----- Last  20 lines from daemon log file - daemon-49.out.log -----
05:57:15.389 [ERROR] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.DaemonStateCoordinator] Command execution: started DaemonCommandExecution[command = Build{id=e70a3593-58dd-4d13-9cc0-3064a72c8175, currentDir=/workspace}, connection = DefaultDaemonConnection: socket connection from /127.0.0.1:34029 to /127.0.0.1:47592] after 0.0 minutes of idle
05:57:15.390 [INFO] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.DaemonRegistryUpdater] Marking the daemon as busy, address: [b5d2ee0e-ade8-438a-a2a1-d0b724bd1ee9 port:34029, addresses:[/127.0.0.1]]
05:57:15.390 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.registry.PersistentDaemonRegistry] Marking busy by address: [b5d2ee0e-ade8-438a-a2a1-d0b724bd1ee9 port:34029, addresses:[/127.0.0.1]]
05:57:15.391 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultFileLockManager] Waiting to acquire exclusive lock on daemon addresses registry.
05:57:15.391 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultFileLockManager] Lock acquired on daemon addresses registry.
05:57:15.396 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultFileLockManager] Releasing lock on daemon addresses registry.
05:57:15.398 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.DaemonStateCoordinator] resetting idle timer
05:57:15.399 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.DaemonStateCoordinator] daemon is running. Sleeping until state changes.
05:57:15.400 [INFO] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.StartBuildOrRespondWithBusy] Daemon is about to start building Build{id=e70a3593-58dd-4d13-9cc0-3064a72c8175, currentDir=/workspace}. Dispatching build started information...
05:57:15.401 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.SynchronizedDispatchConnection] thread 17: dispatching class org.gradle.launcher.daemon.protocol.BuildStarted
05:57:15.403 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.EstablishBuildEnvironment] Configuring env variables: {PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/jdk/bin, JAVA_JCE=standard, APP_HOME=/workspace, JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk, OLDPWD=/workspace, GLIBC_VERSION=2.27-r0, LANG=C.UTF-8, JAVA_VERSION_MAJOR=8, HOSTNAME=bc7a8bc75fed, JAVA_VERSION_TOKEN=42970487e3af4f5aa5bca3f542482c60, GLIBC_REPO=https://github.com/sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc, JAVA_VERSION_MINOR=201, PWD=/workspace, JAVA_PACKAGE=jdk, JAVA_VERSION_BUILD=09, HOME=/root, SHLVL=2}
05:57:15.406 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.SynchronizedDispatchConnection] thread 15: received class org.gradle.launcher.daemon.protocol.CloseInput
05:57:15.407 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.DefaultDaemonConnection] thread 15: Received IO message from client: org.gradle.launcher.daemon.protocol.CloseInput@6181a140
05:57:15.411 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.LogToClient] About to start relaying all logs to the client via the connection.
05:57:15.411 [INFO] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.LogToClient] The client will now receive all logging from the daemon (pid: 49). The daemon log file: /root/.gradle/daemon/5.4.1/daemon-49.out.log
05:57:15.414 [INFO] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.LogAndCheckHealth] Starting build in new daemon [memory: 477.6 MB]
05:57:15.415 [INFO] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ForwardClientInput] Closing daemon's stdin at end of input.
05:57:15.416 [INFO] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ForwardClientInput] The daemon will no longer process any standard input.
05:57:15.420 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ExecuteBuild] The daemon has started executing the build.
05:57:15.420 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ExecuteBuild] Executing build with daemon context: DefaultDaemonContext[uid=ff30b05d-4eb7-4a0f-b3e6-b9043b11d71f,javaHome=/opt/jdk1.8.0_201,daemonRegistryDir=/root/.gradle/daemon,pid=49,idleTimeout=10800000,priority=NORMAL,daemonOpts=-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m,-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError,-Xms256m,-Xmx512m,-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8,-Duser.country,-Duser.language=en,-Duser.variant]
----- End of the daemon log -----


FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Gradle build daemon disappeared unexpectedly (it may have been killed or may have crashed)

* Try:
Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Exception is:
org.gradle.launcher.daemon.client.DaemonDisappearedException: Gradle build daemon disappeared unexpectedly (it may have been killed or may have crashed)
        at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.client.DaemonClient.handleDaemonDisappearance(DaemonClient.java:241)
        at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.client.DaemonClient.monitorBuild(DaemonClient.java:217)
        at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.client.DaemonClient.executeBuild(DaemonClient.java:179)
        at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.client.DaemonClient.execute(DaemonClient.java:142)
        at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.client.DaemonClient.execute(DaemonClient.java:94)
        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.RunBuildAction.run(RunBuildAction.java:55)
        at org.gradle.internal.Actions$RunnableActionAdapter.execute(Actions.java:208)
        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:394)
        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:367)
        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:37)
        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:23)
        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:360)
        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:292)
        at org.gradle.launcher.Main.doAction(Main.java:36)
        at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.EntryPoint.run(EntryPoint.java:45)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
        at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.runNoExit(ProcessBootstrap.java:60)
        at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.run(ProcessBootstrap.java:37)
        at org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain.main(GradleMain.java:23)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
        at org.gradle.wrapper.BootstrapMainStarter.start(BootstrapMainStarter.java:31)
        at org.gradle.wrapper.WrapperExecutor.execute(WrapperExecutor.java:108)
        at org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain.main(GradleWrapperMain.java:62)


* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
The command '/bin/sh -c chmod 777 ./gradlew &&  ./gradlew clean build --stacktrace test jacocoTestReport sonarqube' returned a non-zero code: 1

Thanks for your help in advance.

Answer 1

I had a similar issue while I was trying to build a ktor application on Digital Ocean with Docker.

I added the following lines to my gradle.properties file

org.gradle.daemon=false
org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1024m 

and added Gradle clean into the Dockerfile

RUN ./gradlew clean