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Ran into a weird issue today where I was refactoring a lot of Java classes. Trying to run Gradle build via IntelliJ kept failing.

The error was:

> Task :compileJava FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':compileJava'.
> Could not create service of type DefaultGeneralCompileCaches using GradleScopeCompileServices.createGeneralCompileCaches().

Running with --stacktrace showed this error:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot lock Java compile cache (/projects/myproject/app/.gradle/5.5/javaCompile) as it has already been locked by this process.

I tried shutting down IntelliJ, but running gradle clean build via the command line gave the same error. Could not delete the /projects/myproject/app/.gradle/javaCompile folder too.

$ rm -rf javaCompile/
rm: cannot remove 'javaCompile/classAnalysis.bin': Text file busy
rm: cannot remove 'javaCompile/javaCompile.lock': Text file busy
rm: cannot remove 'javaCompile/taskHistory.bin': Text file busy

This was on an Ubuntu VM, so ended up killing all the gradle processes running (I had 3 running ps -ef | grep gradle , followed by kill ), and that finally solved the issue!

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