`gradle task` fails with NPE

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gradle tasks suddenly started crash with NullPointerException:

* Exception is:
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.android.build.gradle.internal.profile.RecordingBuildListener.afterExecute(RecordingBuildListener.groovy:83)
        at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:35)
        at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:24)
        at org.gradle.internal.event.DefaultListenerManager$ListenerDetails.dispatch(DefaultListenerManager.java:249)
        at org.gradle.internal.event.DefaultListenerManager$ListenerDetails.dispatch(DefaultListenerManager.java:229)
        at org.gradle.internal.event.AbstractBroadcastDispatch.dispatch(AbstractBroadcastDispatch.java:44)
        at org.gradle.internal.event.DefaultListenerManager$EventBroadcast$ListenerDispatch.dispatch(DefaultListenerManager.java:221)
        at org.gradle.internal.event.DefaultListenerManager$EventBroadcast$ListenerDispatch.dispatch(DefaultListenerManager.java:209)
        at org.gradle.internal.event.AbstractBroadcastDispatch.dispatch(AbstractBroadcastDispatch.java:44)
        at org.gradle.internal.event.BroadcastDispatch.dispatch(BroadcastDispatch.java:79)
        at org.gradle.internal.event.BroadcastDispatch.dispatch(BroadcastDispatch.java:30)
        at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ProxyDispatchAdapter$DispatchingInvocationHandler.invoke(ProxyDispatchAdapter.java:93)
        at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy27.afterExecute(Unknown Source)
        at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:204)
        at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:185)
        at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.processTask(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:62)
        at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.run(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:50)
        at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ExecutorPolicy$CatchAndRecordFailures.onExecute(ExecutorPolicy.java:54)
        at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.StoppableExecutorImpl$1.run(StoppableExecutorImpl.java:40)

Gradle’s version:

$ gradle --version

------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 2.8
------------------------------------------------------------

Build time:   2015-10-20 03:46:36 UTC
Build number: none
Revision:     b463d7980c40d44c4657dc80025275b84a29e31f

Groovy:       2.4.4
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.3 compiled on December 23 2013
JVM:          1.7.0_71 (Oracle Corporation 24.71-b01)
OS:           Mac OS X 10.11.2 x86_64

, but I get same stack for 2.10 as well.

gradle assemble still works well.

minimal build.gradle I came up with:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

buildscript {
  repositories {
    mavenCentral()
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.5.0'
  }
}

repositories {
  mavenCentral()
  jcenter()
}

dependencies {
  // compile project( ':android-support-v4' )
  compile project(':facebook')
  compile project(':acra')
}

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

android {
    compileSdkVersion Integer.parseInt(project.ANDROID_BUILD_SDK_VERSION)
    buildToolsVersion project.ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION

    // compileSdkVersion 22
    // buildToolsVersion '23.0.1'

    defaultConfig {
      applicationId 'com.myapp'
      minSdkVersion Integer.parseInt(project.ANDROID_BUILD_MIN_SDK_VERSION)
      targetSdkVersion Integer.parseInt(project.ANDROID_BUILD_TARGET_SDK_VERSION)
      versionCode 1
      versionName '1'
    }
}
2

little clarification: crash happens when gradle tasks is called in any sub-project. If I call it being at root folder, everything works OK.