Gradle build fails only when building many assets using 'BuildPipeline.BuildPlayer'

Unity Engine
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I have a Unity project I build via the command line using ‘BuildPipeline.BuildPlayer’, specifically as part of my CI solution, and I have run into a frustrating error when attempting to build the Android version of my project this way.

What makes this frustrating is that when I manually build the project from within the editor, it builds just fine. This is with Unity version 2021.1.5f1.

I have attached the 3 errors that I get when attempting to build via ‘BuildPipeline.BuildPlayer’.
The relevant errors as far as I can tell are as follows:

WARNING: The option 'android.enableR8' is deprecated and should not be used anymore.
It will be removed in a future version of the Android Gradle plugin, and will no longer allow you to disable R8.
...
> Task :launcher:mergeDexRelease
> Task :launcher:packageRelease
> Task :launcher:packageRelease FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':launcher:packageRelease'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
   > value (4392877980) > 0x00000000ffffffffL

CommandInvokationFailure: Gradle build failed.
C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\2021.1.5f1\Editor\Data\PlaybackEngines\AndroidPlayer\OpenJDK\bin\java.exe -classpath "C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\2021.1.5f1\Editor\Data\PlaybackEngines\AndroidPlayer\Tools\gradle\lib\gradle-launcher-5.6.4.jar" org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain "-Dorg.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4096m" "assembleRelease"

stderr[
Note: C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\TestBuild\Temp\gradleOut\unityLibrary\src\main\java\com\unity3d\player\UnityPlayerActivity.java uses or overrides a deprecated API.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':launcher:packageRelease'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
   > value (4392877980) > 0x00000000ffffffffL

The project uses AddressableAssets and has many sprites. For this reason, I thought it may be this bug reported here. However, I do not see more than 680 assets in my StreamingAssets folder. Although AddressableAssets could be deleting them after it is finished. Unfortunately, the suggested workaround in the comments did not work.

I have tried building on a clean machine with a clean install and even tried moving the assets over to a new project. The code-only builds fine, but it breaks when I add all the assets. I have tried some suggested Gradle options for similar issues, but those didn’t seem to have any noticeable effect.

Any advice on if this is a known Unity bug or if there’s a workaround would be appreciated.

7099807–846151–GradleDaemonError.txt (3.38 KB)
7099807–846154–GradleException.txt (1.04 KB)
7099807–846157–GradleFailureSummary.txt (7.59 KB)

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Has anyone experienced the same issue, or does anyone have an update on this?
It really breaks our CI pipeline.

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Try exporting gradle project instead and inspect gradle.properties, see how many entries there are for unityStreamingAssets property

4

Thanks for the response.
I decided to wait until 2021.1.9f1 was released, as that bug report was supposed to be fixed in that version, but I am still running into the issue.

Do you have any other tips that I could use to help debug this issue?