Android Studio 4 build failed cause error=2 no such file or directory

Question

I am new to Android Studio I just opened a template as normal as anybody can do when first open android studio, I didn't edit anything I just tried to build the apk and got that error, can someone help?

Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'.
> Multiple task action failures occurred:
   > A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
      > AAPT2 aapt2-4.0.1-6197926-linux Daemon #8: Daemon startup failed
        This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.
   > A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
      > AAPT2 aapt2-4.0.1-6197926-linux Daemon #6: Daemon startup failed
        This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.
   > A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
      > AAPT2 aapt2-4.0.1-6197926-linux Daemon #5: Daemon startup failed
        This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.
   > A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
      > AAPT2 aapt2-4.0.1-6197926-linux Daemon #7: Daemon startup failed
        This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.
   > A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
      > AAPT2 aapt2-4.0.1-6197926-linux Daemon #12: Daemon startup failed
        This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.
   > A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
      > AAPT2 aapt2-4.0.1-6197926-linux Daemon #9: Daemon startup failed
        This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.
   > A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
      > AAPT2 aapt2-4.0.1-6197926-linux Daemon #11: Daemon startup failed
        This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.
   > A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
      > AAPT2 aapt2-4.0.1-6197926-linux Daemon #10: Daemon startup failed
        This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.```

Duplicate? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23359572/android-studio-execution-failed-for-task-appmergedebugresources-if-projec — TomTom, Jul 29 '20 at 23:23
Not duplicating there is some difference between my error and his error — 7Wdev, Jul 29 '20 at 23:53

Dhruv · Answer 1 · 2020-07-29T22:49:26.160

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Try following options:

clean & rebuild your project
Restart the android studio
Try Invalidate caches and restart
Delete C:\Users\{username}\.gradle\caches folder and restart Android studio
Check and Update your android gradle plugin version

Also check your gradle.properties contain below line or not.

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4608m

edited Jul 29 '20 at 22:49

answered Jul 29 '20 at 22:34

Dhruv

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For the 4th one I am using Ubuntu not windows – 7Wdev Jul 29 '20 at 22:36
Check out this [answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/37945063/2078074) to find `.gradle` folder in Ubuntu. – Dhruv Jul 29 '20 at 22:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 16 '21 at 13:18

Spent weeks on and off with an AAPT2 error: no such file or directory despite the file concerned being present and not malformed/corrupt (the underlying problem in all the solutions I found online)

I finally discovered that AAPT2 uses the mmap() C library call to map resources into memory for the merge process (AAPT did not.)

My projects were on a network share (SSHFS), which caused an mmap error the AAPT2 code was not expecting, resulting in the inaccurate error message.

The only solutions I could find were:

Don't use a network share (who needs networks right?)
Rewrite AAPT2 to not use mmap.

Android Studio 4 build failed cause error=2 no such file or directory

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The only solutions I could find were: