Unable to start the daemon process. When running Flutter example app on Linux Mint Cinnamon

[kristomaack]

Steps to reproduce

1. Install Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon 6.2.9
2. Install Flutter according to instructions
3. Execute flutter run

Expected results

Flutter app runs on Android

Actual results

➜  kiso_setup_test_project flutter run
Launching lib/main.dart on SM S711U1 in debug mode...

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Unable to start the daemon process.
This problem might be caused by incorrect configuration of the daemon.
For example, an unrecognized jvm option is used.For more details on the daemon, please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/8.3/userguide/gradle_daemon.html in the Gradle documentation.
Process command line: /home/kristo/development/android-studio/jbr/bin/java -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=2G -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError --add-opens=java.base/java.util=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.lang.invoke=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.prefs/java.util.prefs=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.nio.charset=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.net=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.util.concurrent.atomic=ALL-UNNAMED -Xmx4G -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Duser.country=US -Duser.language=en -Duser.variant -cp /home/kristo/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/data/flutter/bin:/data/gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-8.3-all/6en3ugtfdg5xnpx44z4qbwgas/gradle-8.3/lib/gradle-launcher-8.3.jar -javaagent:/home/kristo/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/data/flutter/bin:/data/gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-8.3-all/6en3ugtfdg5xnpx44z4qbwgas/gradle-8.3/lib/agents/gradle-instrumentation-agent-8.3.jar org.gradle.launcher.daemon.bootstrap.GradleDaemon 8.3
Please read the following process output to find out more:
-----------------------
Error: Could not find or load main class org.gradle.launcher.daemon.bootstrap.GradleDaemon
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.gradle.launcher.daemon.bootstrap.GradleDaemon


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Running Gradle task 'assembleDebug'...                             879ms
Error: Gradle task assembleDebug failed with exit code 1

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Flutter Doctor output

Doctor output

➜  kiso_setup_test_project flutter doctor
Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.24.3, on Linux Mint 22 6.8.0-45-generic, locale en_US.UTF-8)
[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 34.0.0)
[✗] Chrome - develop for the web (Cannot find Chrome executable at google-chrome)
    ! Cannot find Chrome. Try setting CHROME_EXECUTABLE to a Chrome executable.
[✓] Linux toolchain - develop for Linux desktop
[✓] Android Studio (version 2024.2)
[✓] VS Code (version 1.93.1)
[✓] Connected device (2 available)
[✓] Network resources

! Doctor found issues in 1 category.

[danagbemava-nc]

Hi @kristomaack, this is a gradle issue. Kindly check https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25009717/android-studio-gradle-project-unable-to-start-the-daemon-process-initializatio to see if any of the answers in there help you resolve your issue

[kristomaack]

Hi, @danagbemava-nc, thanks for a swift response! I found this article before, and it shows a different error where that person is trying to run on a VM and has memory constraints. I tried some of the solutions there, but nothing worked. My error seems to be that the Java library is not working properly with Gradle. I wanted to try this thread rather than the Gradle one since there seem to be some topics on this issue abandoned in the Gradle forum.

Do you have any idea what could cause this? I would greatly appreciate if you could lead me to a different forum/support if this is not the correct one.

[danagbemava-nc]

Hi @kristomaack, curious, are you able to run a new android project? Also, can you provide the full output of flutter doctor -v?

[kristomaack]

Hi, no I cannot run the flutter example app on Android when a new flutter project is created.

Here is the flutter doctor -v:

[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.24.3, on Linux Mint 22 6.8.0-45-generic, locale en_US.UTF-8)
    • Flutter version 3.24.3 on channel stable at /home/kristo/development/flutter
    • Upstream repository https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
    • Framework revision 2663184aa7 (3 weeks ago), 2024-09-11 16:27:48 -0500
    • Engine revision 36335019a8
    • Dart version 3.5.3
    • DevTools version 2.37.3

[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 35.0.0)
    • Android SDK at /home/kristo/development/Android
    • Platform android-35, build-tools 35.0.0
    • Java binary at: /home/kristo/development/android-studio/jbr/bin/java
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 21.0.3+-12282718-b509.11)
    • All Android licenses accepted.

[✗] Chrome - develop for the web (Cannot find Chrome executable at google-chrome)
    ! Cannot find Chrome. Try setting CHROME_EXECUTABLE to a Chrome executable.

[✓] Linux toolchain - develop for Linux desktop
    • Ubuntu clang version 18.1.3 (1ubuntu1)
    • cmake version 3.28.3
    • ninja version 1.11.1
    • pkg-config version 1.8.1

[✓] Android Studio (version 2024.2)
    • Android Studio at /home/kristo/development/android-studio
    • Flutter plugin version 81.1.3
    • Dart plugin can be installed from:
      🔨 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6351-dart
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 21.0.3+-12282718-b509.11)

[✓] VS Code (version 1.93.1)
    • VS Code at /usr/share/code
    • Flutter extension version 3.98.0

[✓] Connected device (1 available)
    • Linux (desktop) • linux • linux-x64 • Linux Mint 22 6.8.0-45-generic

[✓] Network resources
    • All expected network resources are available.

! Doctor found issues in 1 category.

[danagbemava-nc]

Hi @kristomaack, I meant can you start a new android project in android studio (not a flutter android project) but an actual android project and does that work?

Can you also check #101572 (comment) to see if it helps? The paths are in windows but you can do the linux equivalent

[kristomaack]

Hi @danagbemava-nc, this worked after I went through my gradle installation for a bit. I used sdkman to install gradle but when I switched from bash to zsh the configuration in the rc file did not convert over (Flutter on android did not work with bash shell also). So with that fixed I could add the path directly to the current version of gradle being used by sdkman.

So this is how I configured my .zshrc file:

export GRADLE_USER_HOME="/home/kristo/.sdkman/candidates/gradle/current"

export PATH="$PATH:/data/flutter/bin"
#
#THIS MUST BE AT THE END OF THE FILE FOR SDKMAN TO WORK!!!
export SDKMAN_DIR="$HOME/.sdkman"
[[ -s "$HOME/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh" ]] && source "$HOME/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh"

I had to add the GRADLE_USER_HOME path to the .sdkman current gradle and it worked.

Thank you so much for the help!

[kristomaack]

This is finished, thanks again for the help!