Dart error when building Flutter

[vagrantrobbie]

Compiler message:
Warning: Tried to initialize from a previous compilation (build/app.dill), but couldn't.
Error message was 'RangeError (index): Index out of range: no indices are valid: 0'.
Stacktrace included '#0      Uint8List.[] (dart:typed_data-patch/typed_data_patch.dart:2188:7)
#1      BinaryBuilder.readByte (package:kernel/binary/ast_from_binary.dart:95:27)
#2      BinaryBuilder.readUint32 (package:kernel/binary/ast_from_binary.dart:115:13)
#3      BinaryBuilder.readComponent (package:kernel/binary/ast_from_binary.dart:435:17)
#4      IncrementalCompiler.initializeFromDill (package:front_end/src/fasta/incremental_compiler.dart:618:14)
<asynchronous suspension>
#5      IncrementalCompiler.computeDelta.<anonymous closure> (package:front_end/src/fasta/incremental_compiler.dart:153:36)
<asynchronous suspension>
#6      CompilerContext.runInContext.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure> (package:front_end/src/fasta/compiler_context.dart:122:46)
#7      new Future.sync (dart:async/future.dart:224:31)
#8      CompilerContext.runInContext.<anonymous closure> (package:front_end/src/fasta/compiler_context.dart:122:19)
#9      _rootRun (dart:async/zone.dart:1124:13)
#10     _CustomZone.run (dart:async/zone.dart:1021:19)
#11     _runZoned (dart:async/zone.dart:1516:10)
#12     runZoned (dart:async/zone.dart:1463:12)
#13     CompilerContext.runInContext (package:front_end/src/fasta/compiler_context.dart:121:12)
#14     IncrementalCompiler.computeDelta (package:front_end/src/fasta/incremental_compiler.dart:127:20)
<asynchronous suspension>
#15     IncrementalCompiler.compile (package:vm/incremental_compiler.dart:48:44)
<asynchronous suspension>
#16     FrontendCompiler.compile.<anonymous closure> (package:vm/frontend_server.dart:341:67)
#17     new Future.<anonymous closure> (dart:async/future.dart:176:37)
#18     _rootRun (dart:async/zone.dart:1120:38)
#19     _CustomZone.run (dart:async/zone.dart:1021:19)
#20     _CustomZone.runGuarded (dart:async/zone.dart:923:7)
#21     _CustomZone.bindCallbackGuarded.<anonymous closure> (dart:async/zone.dart:963:23)
#22     _rootRun (dart:async/zone.dart:1124:13)
#23     _CustomZone.run (dart:async/zone.dart:1021:19)
#24     _CustomZone.bindCallback.<anonymous closure> (dart:async/zone.dart:947:23)
#25     Timer._createTimer.<anonymous closure> (dart:async-patch/timer_patch.dart:21:15)
#26     _Timer._runTimers (dart:isolate-patch/timer_impl.dart:382:19)
#27     _Timer._handleMessage (dart:isolate-patch/timer_impl.dart:416:5)
#28     _RawReceivePortImpl._handleMessage (dart:isolate-patch/isolate_patch.dart:171:12)
'.
This might be a bug.

initialize_from.dill.gz

Dart VM version: 2.1.1-dev.3.2 (Thu Jan 24 11:50:07 2019 +0100) on "macos_x64"

Building my Flutter app
Flutter (Channel beta, v1.5.4-hotfix.2, on Mac OS X 10.14.4 18E226, locale en-NZ)

[a-siva]

@vagrantrobbie thanks for filing this issue, can you provide us with some instructions on how to reproduce this situation.

[a-siva]

This appears to be a duplicate of issue #37043

[vagrantrobbie]

@vagrantrobbie thanks for filing this issue, can you provide us with some instructions on how to reproduce this situation.

I don't think I did anything out of the ordinary. I recently moved from Flutter beta channel back to stable. I just ran a debug build of my Flutter application and then this error was thrown. I compiled successfully after trying again but now my IDE (Intellij IDEA Ultimate) has Dart Analyzer package linker errors even though my application still compiles and runs.

Can I provide any more logs? Like I say, I don't think I have done anything different than any other build.

[a-siva]

No more logs are required, we think the problem you ran into is similar to the one documented in issue #37043 .

[jensjoha]

Thank you for reporting this.
This is caused by the file we try to initialize from being empty. This can happen if for instance launching several instances working on the same file (e.g. one instance is overwriting the file while the other is reading it). As long as it doesn't happen all the time it's nothing to worry about.
I recently landed d8739b5 to make sure we don't even try to load when the file is empty, and this warning will thus be avoided.

[vagrantrobbie]

OK. Maybe I had hit the 'run' button too many times in my IDE.

Thanks for this