I was following the tutorial from Setting up the development environment configuring the React Native CLI Quickstart of Windows and Android.
Whenever I run the command react-native run-android Metro starts in another CMD and Android Studios opens up, but this error appears in the original CMD.
info Running jetifier to migrate libraries to AndroidX. You can disable it using "--no-jetifier" flag.
(node:12644) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'padLevels' of module exports inside circular dependency
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
Jetifier found 896 file(s) to forward-jetify. Using 12 workers...
info Starting JS server...
info Launching emulator...
info Successfully launched emulator.
info Installing the app...
> Task :app:processDebugMainManifest FAILED
Error 'C:\Users\xrafa\Documents\Android\AwesomeProject\android\app\build\outputs\logs\manifest-merger-debug-report.txt (Access is denied)' while writing the merger report file, build can continue but merging activities will not be documented
11 actionable tasks: 2 executed, 9 up-to-date
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugMainManifest'.
> java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Users\xrafa\Documents\Android\AwesomeProject\android\app\build\intermediates\manifest_merge_blame_file\debug\manifest-merger-blame-debug-report.txt (Access is denied)
* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
BUILD FAILED in 2s
error Failed to install the app. Make sure you have the Android development environment set up: https://reactnative.dev/docs/environment-setup.
Error: Command failed: gradlew.bat app:installDebug -PreactNativeDevServerPort=8081
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugMainManifest'.
> java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Users\xrafa\Documents\Android\AwesomeProject\android\app\build\intermediates\manifest_merge_blame_file\debug\manifest-merger-blame-debug-report.txt (Access is denied)
* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
BUILD FAILED in 2s
at makeError (C:\Users\xrafa\Documents\Android\AwesomeProject\node_modules\execa\index.js:174:9)
at C:\Users\xrafa\Documents\Android\AwesomeProject\node_modules\execa\index.js:278:16
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
at async runOnAllDevices (C:\Users\xrafa\Documents\Android\AwesomeProject\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\build\commands\runAndroid\runOnAllDevices.js:94:5)
at async Command.handleAction (C:\Users\xrafa\Documents\Android\AwesomeProject\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\index.js:186:9)
info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.
I used this post and the answer as a reference because I thought it was similar, but I got a similar error from what I got before.
> Task :app:processDebugMainManifest FAILED
Error 'C:\Users\xrafa\Documents\Android\AwesomeProject\android\app\build\outputs\logs\manifest-merger-debug-report.txt (Access is denied)' while writing the merger report file, build can continue but merging activities will not be documented
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugMainManifest'.
> java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Users\xrafa\Documents\Android\AwesomeProject\android\app\build\intermediates\manifest_merge_blame_file\debug\manifest-merger-blame-debug-report.txt (Access is denied)
* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
BUILD FAILED in 2s
11 actionable tasks: 2 executed, 9 up-to-date
I also want to say that I already ran the command gradlew clean and same error.
Is there something wrong with the gradlew.bat?
