Android Studio 3.0 - No server to serve request

After clean install of Android Studio I always get the error

Error:java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.RuntimeException: No server to serve request. Check logs for details.

and

Error:Execution failed for task ':Application:mergeDebugResources'. Error: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.RuntimeException: No server to serve request. Check logs for details.

Java is up to date and the path is set.

I am new to Android Studio, what should I try?

We ran into the same issue, and have been able to find the root cause: The error message means that Gradle cannot connect to some worker processes. In our case, the process was for 'aapt2'. Running 'ldd aapt2' indicated that some shared libraries were missing (mainly GLIBC). Since we're using Docker based on Alpine Linux, it comes with a reduced GLIBC (glibc-musl). The solution was to simply install glibc in the Docker container.

I suggest you run ldd build-tools/{version}/aapt2 to see which libraries are missing from the OS. You did not mention your OS, are you also using Docker and AlpineLinux ?

In my case, I did not need to re-download the sdk. I closed Android Studio and ran the following command in the Terminal:

sudo chmod 777 -R ~/Desktop/AndroidStudio

...where, ~/Desktop/AndroidStudio was the folder structure after Root which I needed to mention in order to provide permission to read all the SDK packages and perform required operation as and when necessary by the Android Studio, because my Sdk folder was inside "~/Desktop/AndroidStudio".

I am running Android Studio 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This worked for me perfectly :-)