Building AOSP 6.0.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS keeps failing

[Ali Reza Barkhordari]

I'm using a copy of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a VPS having the following spec. 1GB RAM / 100GB HDD. Official docs say it's recommended for the machine to have 16GB RAM. I worked around this issue by creating a 15GB swap file.

I tried many times to build, but every time it failed. Seems it have trouble with Jack. The most recent log file (i.e. stdout) follows.

including ./system/security/softkeymaster/Android.mk ...

including ./system/vold/Android.mk ...

including ./tools/external/fat32lib/Android.mk ...

Building with Jack: out/target/common/obj/JAVA_LIBRARIES/core-junit_intermediates/with-local/classes.dex

Building with Jack: out/target/common/obj/JAVA_LIBRARIES/libphonenumber-platform_intermediates/classes.jack

Building with Jack: out/target/common/obj/JAVA_LIBRARIES/ext_intermediates/with-local/classes.dex

Building with Jack: out/target/common/obj/JAVA_LIBRARIES/conscrypt_intermediates/with-local/classes.dex

Building with Jack: out/target/common/obj/JAVA_LIBRARIES/bouncycastle_intermediates/with-local/classes.dex

Building with Jack: out/target/common/obj/JAVA_LIBRARIES/okhttp_intermediates/with-local/classes.dex

Building with Jack: out/target/common/obj/JAVA_LIBRARIES/framework_intermediates/with-local/classes.dex

May 08, 2017 8:10:53 PM com.android.sched.scheduler.MultiWorkersScheduleInstance$LongRunning dump

SEVERE: Timeout detected during run:

May 08, 2017 8:11:49 PM com.android.sched.scheduler.MultiWorkersScheduleInstance$LongRunning dump

SEVERE:   No thread. Wrong detection. Try to increase timeout with 'sched.runner.thread.detector.long-running.timeout' property

May 08, 2017 8:12:54 PM com.android.jack.CommandLine runJack

SEVERE: Internal compiler error (version 1.1-mr2 'Brest' (175100 000a2f91edbe638090dc577801ba49592229fd8b)):

java.lang.AssertionError

at com.android.sched.scheduler.MultiWorkersScheduleInstance.process(MultiWorkersScheduleInstance.java:490)

at com.android.jack.Jack.run(Jack.java:597)

at com.android.jack.Jack.checkAndRun(Jack.java:367)

at com.android.jack.CommandLine.runJack(CommandLine.java:66)

at com.android.jack.Main.main(Main.java:73)

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 com.android.jack.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:94)

java.lang.AssertionError

at com.android.sched.scheduler.MultiWorkersScheduleInstance.process(MultiWorkersScheduleInstance.java:490)

at com.android.jack.Jack.run(Jack.java:597)

at com.android.jack.Jack.checkAndRun(Jack.java:367)

at com.android.jack.CommandLine.runJack(CommandLine.java:66)

at com.android.jack.Main.main(Main.java:73)

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 com.android.jack.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:94)

Internal compiler error (version 1.1-mr2 'Brest' (175100 000a2f91edbe638090dc577801ba49592229fd8b)).

Warning: This may have produced partial or corrupted output.

build/core/java.mk:643: recipe for target 'out/target/common/obj/JAVA_LIBRARIES/framework_intermediates/with-local/classes.dex' failed

make: *** [out/target/common/obj/JAVA_LIBRARIES/framework_intermediates/with-local/classes.dex] Error 41

How can I get the Jack to work or completely disable it?

Thanks in advance. 

[Glenn Kasten]

As you mentioned the minimum requirements at
https://source.android.com/source/requirements#hardware-requirements
do recommend at least 16 6GB of RAM/swap.
That said, the more real RAM you have the better,
so using 1GB RAM and the rest swap is unlikely to be productive.

Also your 100 GB HDD is small.

Overall, I think your machine is underpowered for this.