gradle -version
creates the well known error message:
Could not determine java version from ‘11.0.7’
on a debian buster.
The web is full with such error reports, there are many different reasons to get this error,
and also many solutions.
Unfortunately none of them helps me.
When i changed the java version to opernjdk8 then gradle tells me
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Gradle 3.2.1
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Build time: 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC
Revision: none
Groovy: 2.4.16
Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.5 compiled on August 27 2018
JVM: 1.8.0_212 (Oracle Corporation 25.212-b03)
OS: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 amd64
which gradle
/usr/bin/gradle
sudo dpkg -S /usr/bin/gradle
gradle: /usr/bin/gradle
sudo apt show gradle | grep Version
Version: 4.4.1-6
i have already reinstalled gradle, deleted ~/.gradle and killed all gradle daemon process, but no progress.
From where does this 3.2.1 comes !?
strace -e trace=open gradle --info
[...]
Initialized native services in: /home/bschatz/.gradle/native
Removing 0 daemon stop events from registry
Previous Daemon (15192) stopped at Wed Jun 17 17:00:58 CEST 2020 after the daemon registry became unreadable
Starting a Gradle Daemon, 1 stopped Daemon could not be reused, use --status for details
Starting daemon process: workingDir = /home/bschatz/.gradle/daemon/3.2.1, daemonArgs: [/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/java, -XX:MaxPermSize=256m, -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError, -Xmx1024m, -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8, -Duser.country=DE, -Duser.language=de, -Duser.variant, -cp, /usr/share/gradle/lib/gradle-launcher-3.2.1.jar, org.gradle.launcher.daemon.bootstrap.GradleDaemon, 3.2.1]
[...]
ls -l /usr/share/java/gradle*3.2.1*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23708 Dez 22 2016 /usr/share/java/gradle-announce-3.2.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39439 Dez 22 2016 /usr/share/java/gradle-antlr-3.2.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 298357 Dez 22 2016 /usr/share/java/gradle-base-services-3.2.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29590 Dez 22 2016 /usr/share/java/gradle-base-services-groovy-3.2.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 205167 Dez 22 2016 /usr/share/java/gradle-build-comparison-3.2.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 146366 Dez 22 2016 /usr/share/java/gradle-build-init-3.2.1.jar
[...]
ls -l /usr/share/java/gradle*4.4.1*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23646 Jun 22 2019 /usr/share/java/gradle-announce-4.4.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39535 Jun 22 2019 /usr/share/java/gradle-antlr-4.4.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 429931 Jun 22 2019 /usr/share/java/gradle-base-services-4.4.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30107 Jun 22 2019 /usr/share/java/gradle-base-services-groovy-4.4.1.jar
[...]