Problem on Linux with GRADLE_HOME environment variable

[thomas-huegel]

When I launch VS Code on a Java project built using Gradle, I get the following errors:

Could not install Gradle distribution from 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.1-bin.zip'
Could not create parent directory for lock file /usr/share/java/gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-5.1-bin/....../gradle-5.1-bin.zip.lck

I managed to fix the problem by setting the environment variable GRADLE_HOME to ~/.gradle instead of the default /usr/share/java/gradle and cleaning the project directory.

Environment

• Operating System: Arch Linux 5.0.4
• JDK version: openjdk version "11.0.3" 2019-04-16
• Visual Studio Code version: 1.32.3
• Java extension version: Java Extension Pack 0.6.0

Steps To Reproduce

1. Launch a Java project using Gradle 5.1

Current Result

The Java Language Server aborts.

Expected Result

Additional Informations

[ghost]

@thomas-hugel I could leave the error message there and restart vscode later as the download will still continue in the background. You can check whether the wrapper lock file still grow in size in $GRADLE_HOME.