net.rubygrapefruit.platform.NativeException: Could not open terminal for stdout: could not create locale

I’m getting the following exception with Gradle 1.3 (test is a custom task in this case):

$ ./gradlew -i test

FAILURE: Build aborted because of an internal error.

  • What went wrong: Build aborted because of an unexpected internal error. Please file an issue at: http://forums.gradle.org.

  • Try: Run with --debug option to get additional debug info.

  • Exception is:

net.rubygrapefruit.platform.NativeException: Could not open terminal for stdout: could not create locale

at net.rubygrapefruit.platform.internal.TerminfoTerminal.init(TerminfoTerminal.java:29)

at net.rubygrapefruit.platform.internal.WrapperTerminal.init(WrapperTerminal.java:25)

at net.rubygrapefruit.platform.internal.AbstractTerminals.getTerminal(AbstractTerminals.java:19)

at org.gradle.internal.nativeplatform.console.NativePlatformConsoleDetector.getConsole(NativePlatformConsoleDetector.java:42)

at org.gradle.logging.internal.ConsoleConfigureAction.execute(ConsoleConfigureAction.java:32)

at org.gradle.logging.internal.ConsoleConfigureAction.execute(ConsoleConfigureAction.java:27)

at org.gradle.logging.internal.OutputEventRenderer.attachConsole(OutputEventRenderer.java:68)

at org.gradle.logging.internal.DefaultLoggingManager.attachConsole(DefaultLoggingManager.java:149)

at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:168)

at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:139)

at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:33)

at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:22)

at org.gradle.launcher.Main.doAction(Main.java:48)

at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.EntryPoint.run(EntryPoint.java:45)

at org.gradle.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:39)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)

at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.runNoExit(ProcessBootstrap.java:50)

at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.run(ProcessBootstrap.java:32)

at org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain.main(GradleMain.java:26)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)

at org.gradle.wrapper.BootstrapMainStarter.start(BootstrapMainStarter.java:33)

at org.gradle.wrapper.WrapperExecutor.execute(WrapperExecutor.java:130)

at org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain.main(GradleWrapperMain.java:48)

Hello Evgeny, thanks for reporting. Can you provide the output of gradle -v from an earlier gradle version. I think you run into the same problem as described here: http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/gradle_1_3_wrapper_java_io_unsupportedencodingexception