“Error occurred running Grails CLI: null” when running grails 3.0 command line

Question

I\'m trying to run grails list-profiles, but receive the following error:

snowch@snowch-ws2:~/repos$ grails list-profiles --stacktrace
| Error E         


        

Answer 1

I have not figured out, what is the exact cause of the error, but it seems to occur if you try to run grails 3 in the system where grails 2 is also installed.

What I did to get the command run - I created the project in a new directory. The directory for my old grails app was: /home/me/projects/oldgrailsapp

when I tried to execute the grails command in /home/me/projects it failed, but when I tried this in another directory /home/me/projects_new, it succeeded. So I guess that the problem was that old grails configuration was somehow interfering with the new one.

I also removed references to old grails and groovy versions from the PATH variable by editing .bashrc file in my home directory (I really do not know if it was needed).