org.gradle.api.UncheckedIOException

Hi i am a start using Android Studio few days ago and while executing command

xyz:/$ gradle -q dependencies

get the below exception

FAILURE: Build aborted because of an internal error. Exception is: org.gradle.api.UncheckedIOException: Failed to create parent directory ‘/.gradle’ when creating directory ‘/.gradle/1.4/taskArtifacts’

at org.gradle.util.GFileUtils.mkdirs(GFileUtils.java:285)

at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultPersistentDirectoryStore.open(DefaultPersistentDirectoryStore.java:42)

at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultPersistentDirectoryStore.open(DefaultPersistentDirectoryStore.java:27)

at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultCacheFactory$CacheFactoryImpl.doOpenDir(DefaultCacheFactory.java:72)

at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultCacheFactory$CacheFactoryImpl.open(DefaultCacheFactory.java:111)

at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultCacheRepository$PersistentCacheBuilder.doOpen(DefaultCacheRepository.java:184)

at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultCacheRepository$PersistentCacheBuilder.doOpen(DefaultCacheRepository.java:134)

at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultCacheRepository$AbstractCacheBuilder.open(DefaultCacheRepository.java:121)

at org.gradle.api.internal.changedetection.DefaultTaskArtifactStateCacheAccess.getCache(DefaultTaskArtifactStateCacheAccess.java:41)

at org.gradle.api.internal.changedetection.DefaultTaskArtifactStateCacheAccess.useCache(DefaultTaskArtifactStateCacheAccess.java:79)

at org.gradle.api.internal.changedetection.TaskCacheLockHandlingBuildExecuter.execute(TaskCacheLockHandlingBuildExecuter.java:29)

at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:61)

at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.access$200(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:23)

at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter$2.proceed(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:67)

at org.gradle.execution.DryRunBuildExecutionAction.execute(DryRunBuildExecutionAction.java:32)

at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:61)

at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:54)

at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuildStages(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:165)

at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuild(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:113)

at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.run(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:81)

at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExecuteBuildAction.run(ExecuteBuildAction.java:38)

at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessGradleLauncherActionExecuter.execute(InProcessGradleLauncherActionExecuter.java:39)

at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessGradleLauncherActionExecuter.execute(InProcessGradleLauncherActionExecuter.java:25)

at org.gradle.launcher.cli.RunBuildAction.run(RunBuildAction.java:50)

at org.gradle.api.internal.Actions$RunnableActionAdapter.execute(Actions.java:171)

at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:201)

at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:174)

at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:170)

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:606)

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)