Stackoverflow error running gradle during builds on build-azure-win2012r2-x64-1

[sxa]

Some reference links: JDK11/js#508 | JDK11/J9XL#276 | JDK11/hs#510 | JDK14/J9#36 - all failing on build-azure-win2012r2-x64-1 which is a new machine added as part of adoptium/infrastructure#1239

Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.2.1-bin.zip
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Welcome to Gradle 5.2.1!

Here are the highlights of this release:
 - Define sets of dependencies that work together with Java Platform plugin
 - New C++ plugins with dependency management built-in
 - New C++ project types for gradle init
 - Service injection into plugins and project extensions

For more details see https://docs.gradle.org/5.2.1/release-notes.html

To honour the JVM settings for this build a new JVM will be forked. Please consider using the daemon: https://docs.gradle.org/5.2.1/userguide/gradle_daemon.html.
Daemon will be stopped at the end of the build stopping after processing
> Task :clean UP-TO-DATE
> Task :compileJava NO-SOURCE
> Task :compileGroovy
> Task :compileGroovy FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':compileGroovy'.
> java.lang.StackOverflowError (no error message)

[gdams]

rebooted the machine and it seems happier now. closing