Inquiry. I am on a Kotlin project that uses Gradl...

# gradle

[Larry Garfield]

Inquiry. I am on a Kotlin project that uses Gradle, with IntelliJ. From time to time, my Gradle pane in IntelliJ will just go blank. I know there’s several dozen gradle tasks defined, and sometimes it does show them and I can run them fine, but other times (like right now) it just says “Nothing to show.” I’ve done rebuilds, I’ve done refreshes, it just seems like it randomly goes on strike for a few days. Anyone else seen this? Any clue what could be going on, and how to fix it?

[Sam]

Maybe a stuck Gradle daemon? Try ./gradlew --stop.

[Roman Vatagin]

@Larry Garfield Once the issue occurs does it affect all Gradle Projects or only that specific one?
Could you please share the logs (Help -> Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data) along with the rough time/date when the issue was occurring, so we can take a closer look at it?

[Larry Garfield]

I only have the one project I’m working on.

[Larry Garfield]

Running --stop said it stopped 2 daemons. Trying to run a command now to see if it restarts it.

… Looks like it doesn’t. Or at least it doesn’t show in the IDE.

[Larry Garfield]

There’s… a lot of diagnostic data when I do that. 🙂 What am I looking for in there?

[Roman Vatagin]

@Larry Garfield Help -> Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data should package all of the data needed for troubleshooting into a single ZIP.
If you could share that ZIP file, that should be everything we need to start the investigation.

[Larry Garfield]

(We = are you with JetBrains?)

[Roman Vatagin]

Yes, I'm the Support Engineer for Java Build Tools Team.
If you cannot share the logs here due to them containing sensitive data, please use our upload service and share the upload ID instead.

[Larry Garfield]

OK, thanks. I am OK sharing it with JB, but not with just-some-dude-in-the-Internet. 🙂 (Work computer, so I have no idea what might leak.)

[Larry Garfield]

Timeline: It’s been fine for a few weeks, but yesterday morning it went blank again. Still blank now.

Upload id: 2024_07_24_5E38PY25He3rg77BawdNW2 (file: idea-logs-20240724-0823063177375526389629296.zip)

[Roman Vatagin]

Thank you for sharing the logs!
The logs don't seem to indicate any explicit issues with the Gradle component of IDEA.
Just to clarify, when you mentioned the Gradle pane you were referring to the Gradle Tool Window, correct?

When the issue occurs, please check the status of IDEA's Gradle Daemons (press Shift twice and type "`show gradle daemons`" in the Search Everywhere window), try stopping them and reopening the Project. You can also check for Gradle Daemons using jps console command.
If the issue persists, try creating a new Gradle Project and check if it affected by the issue as well.

Since I saw a number of Plugin-related errors in the logs, it might also be worth it to try temporarily disabling them:
1. Backup disabled_plugins.txt, so you can rollback, if needed
2. Settings -> Plugins -> Cogwheel icon -> Disable All Downloaded Plugins

[Larry Garfield]

Yes, the tool window.

[Larry Garfield]

Wow, another thing the search everywhere dialog does?? 🙂 There’s no gradle daemons running. Which… I suppose could be a problem.

[Larry Garfield]

So maybe the daemon crashed and can’t restart for some reason?

[Roman Vatagin]

Does jps command show any running Gradle Daemons?
Does clicking the Gradle Sync button have any effect?

[Larry Garfield]

Sync button does nothing. Running jps shows, this:

94224 KotlinCompileDaemon
94215 GradleDaemon
97862 Jps
45195 Main

[Larry Garfield]

… But I just restarted the IDE, and this time it did fix it. In the past, it only sometimes has.

[Larry Garfield]

Yet the gradle daemons dialog is still showing no entries. Wha?

[Roman Vatagin]

Which version of Gradle does your Project use?
Did you get a chance to test if the problem persists for a newly-created Project?

[Larry Garfield]

Didn’t try on a new project. Looks like we’re on Gradle 8.8.

[Roman Vatagin]

In regards to the issue with Gradle Daemons not being visible, that's a known issue, that's already been fixed - the fix should become available shortly.

For the main issue, did force-stopping the Gradle Daemons helped with the issue?
Does your workflow involves switching Git Branches often?
Another possible workaround for this is to close all instances of IDEA, remove the projects folder from the System Directory and re-open the Project.

[Larry Garfield]

Force stopping did not fix it. Restarting the IDE sometimes fixes it, sometimes not.

Yes, I switch Git branches a lot.

[Roman Vatagin]

Could you please let me know if the Git Branches in question include .idea folder or any of its' files/subfolders?

[Larry Garfield]

No, .idea is git-ignored.

[Roman Vatagin]

Try closing all instances of IDEA, renaming/removing the projects folder found in IDEA's System Directory and re-importing the Project (Open -> Navigate to Project's directory -> Double-click the root build.gradle(.kts) -> Open as Project).