Missing `cache.properties` file causes Gradle to fail to start

[big-guy]

Sporadically, starting with Gradle 4.2, the file .gradle/buildOutputCleanup/cache.properties is removed or fails to be created when starting the Gradle daemon. This causes the build to fail very early (while creating TaskExecutionServices) and is unrecoverable without deleting the .gradle directory or creating the missing file by hand. Stopping and restarting the daemon doesn't recreate the file.

This doesn't appear to happen on every build and I believe the build sometimes works and then fails later (with another new daemon).

Expected Behavior

Gradle would not fail to start.

Current Behavior

Gradle fails with a cryptic message:

Could not create service of type TaskOutputFilesRepository using TaskExecutionServices.createTaskOutputFilesRepository(). 
> java.io.FileNotFoundException: /path/to/project/.gradle/buildOutputCleanup/cache.properties (No such file or directory)

Context

I can provide more context privately.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

This happens sporadically.

Your Environment

The build is running inside a Linux Docker container.

This occurs on Gradle 4.2. Previously, the project was using 4.0.2 and didn't see this problem.

[blindpirate]

The failure occurs here, where Gradle tries to load cache.properties. It's easy to reproduce, just remove .gradle/buildOutputCleanup/cache.properties and rerun any gradle task. However, I tried both 4.2.1 and 4.0.2 and they both see this issue. So the question is: when and where is it removed in 4.2.1? I couldn't find out any clues in code, @big-guy please give me more context privately.

[npappassl]

Removing the cache.properties.lock file did the trick for me

[melanke]

Or removing buildOutputCleanup.lock

[FauricioValencia]

las rutas??

[esipavicius]

With ubuntu I start react-native run-android with sudo. So its gets permissions to download .gradle. Maybe its works when chmod .gradle folder.

[backdoorcodr]

or by removing the workerMain.lock !