Android Studio - execution failed for task ': app: transformClassesWithDexForDebug' - java.exe finished with nonzero exit value 2

Recently, nine out of ten of my builds fail with the following exception. I clean and rebuild the project, but to no avail. I searched everywhere and tried solutions shared by other similar questions - again no help. My version of Android Studio 2.0 Beta 5 with Gradle is also on 2.0.0-beta5. Here is the exception I get:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithDexForDebug'. > com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_75\bin\java.exe'' finished with non-zero exit value 2 * Try: Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. * Exception is: org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithDexForDebug'. at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeActions(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:69) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:46) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.PostExecutionAnalysisTaskExecuter.execute(PostExecutionAnalysisTaskExecuter.java:35) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.execute(SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.java:64) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ValidatingTaskExecuter.execute(ValidatingTaskExecuter.java:58) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.execute(SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.java:52) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.execute(SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.java:52) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.execute(SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.java:53) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.java:43) at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:203) at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:185) at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.processTask(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:66) at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.run(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:50) at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ExecutorPolicy$CatchAndRecordFailures.onExecute(ExecutorPolicy.java:54) at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.StoppableExecutorImpl$1.run(StoppableExecutorImpl.java:40) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_75\bin\java.exe'' finished with non-zero exit value 2 at com.android.builder.profile.Recorder$Block.handleException(Recorder.java:54) at com.android.builder.profile.ThreadRecorder$1.record(ThreadRecorder.java:57) at com.android.builder.profile.ThreadRecorder$1.record(ThreadRecorder.java:47) at com.android.build.gradle.internal.pipeline.TransformTask.transform(TransformTask.java:173) at org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod.invoke(JavaMethod.java:75) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory$IncrementalTaskAction.doExecute(AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.java:244) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory$StandardTaskAction.execute(AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.java:220) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory$IncrementalTaskAction.execute(AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.java:231) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory$StandardTaskAction.execute(AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.java:209) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeAction(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:80) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeActions(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:61) ... 14 more Caused by: com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_75\bin\java.exe'' finished with non-zero exit value 2 at com.android.build.gradle.internal.transforms.DexTransform.transform(DexTransform.java:424) at com.android.build.gradle.internal.pipeline.TransformTask$3.call(TransformTask.java:178) at com.android.build.gradle.internal.pipeline.TransformTask$3.call(TransformTask.java:174) at com.android.builder.profile.ThreadRecorder$1.record(ThreadRecorder.java:55) ... 23 more Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_75\bin\java.exe'' finished with non-zero exit value 2 at com.android.ide.common.internal.WaitableExecutor.waitForTasksWithQuickFail(WaitableExecutor.java:119) at com.android.build.gradle.internal.transforms.DexTransform.transform(DexTransform.java:364) ... 26 more Caused by: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_75\bin\java.exe'' finished with non-zero exit value 2 at com.android.builder.core.AndroidBuilder.runDexer(AndroidBuilder.java:1443) at com.android.builder.core.AndroidBuilder.preDexLibraryNoCache(AndroidBuilder.java:1633) at com.android.builder.internal.compiler.PreDexCache.preDexLibrary(PreDexCache.java:119) at com.android.builder.core.AndroidBuilder.preDexLibrary(AndroidBuilder.java:1588) at com.android.build.gradle.internal.transforms.DexTransform$PreDexTask.call(DexTransform.java:474) at com.android.build.gradle.internal.transforms.DexTransform$PreDexTask.call(DexTransform.java:428) Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_75\bin\java.exe'' finished with non-zero exit value 2 at com.android.builder.core.AndroidBuilder.runDexer(AndroidBuilder.java:1427) ... 5 more Caused by: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_75\bin\java.exe'' finished with non-zero exit value 2 at com.android.build.gradle.internal.process.GradleProcessResult.assertNormalExitValue(GradleProcessResult.java:43) at com.android.builder.core.AndroidBuilder$2.call(AndroidBuilder.java:1435) at com.android.builder.core.AndroidBuilder$2.call(AndroidBuilder.java:1427) Caused by: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_75\bin\java.exe'' finished with non-zero exit value 2 at org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle$ExecResultImpl.assertNormalExitValue(DefaultExecHandle.java:367) at com.android.build.gradle.internal.process.GradleProcessResult.assertNormalExitValue(GradleProcessResult.java:41) ... 2 more BUILD FAILED Total time: 16.043 secs 

Can anyone provide any clues?

EDIT: Most other similar questions have answers suggesting conflicting dependencies, so here is my dependency tree. I do not see a conflict. Something?

 +--- com.android.support:multidex:1.0.1 +--- com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.1 | \--- com.android.support:support-v4:23.1.1 | \--- com.android.support:support-annotations:23.1.1 +--- com.android.support:cardview-v7:23.1.1 +--- project :circularreveal | \--- com.nineoldandroids:library:2.4.0 \--- project :ColorPickerPreference 
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Switch to Java 1.8 and these problems should go away. I don't know what the reason is: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException , but upgrading to Java 1.8 always fixed this for me.

java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: process command 'C: \ Program Files \ Java \ jdk1.7.0_75 \ bin \ java. exe '

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I had the same exception and it was fixed after I cleaned the project (Build-> Clean Project). Give it a try.

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It was probably a problem with less RAM when I tried to compile my project. As soon as I freed my memory, it was fixed automatically.

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