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Travis.yml ./gradlew : Permission denied

Using Travis CI for an existing Android project calling 

$ ./gradlew build connectedCheck

I get this error:

/home/travis/build.sh: line 45: ./gradlew: Permission denied
The command "./gradlew build connectedCheck" failed and exited with 126 during .
Solution

  • It depends by the exec-permission to your unix gradlew script.

    It can be fixed using the command: 

    git update-index --chmod=+x gradlew

    A little desciption to understand the problem.
    First of all you can check your permissions using:

    git ls-tree HEAD

    You will see:

    100644 blob xxxxxxxxxxx gradlew

    As you can see the file has 644 permission.

    Fix it by setting the executable flag on your gradlew file changing it to 755:

    git update-index --chmod=+x gradlew

    Just commit and push the changes:

    git commit -m "permission access for travis"

[master e80ab1b] gradlew permission access for travis
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 mode change 100644 => 100755 gradlew

    A last check running git ls-tree again to see the change:

    git ls-tree HEAD

    You can see:

    100755 blob xxxxxxxxxxxxx   gradlew

    Another way to solve this issue is to use:

    before_install:
 - chmod +x gradlew

    This kind of solution doesn't change the permission in your git repo, but just changes the permission runtime in the execution.