Gradle Milestone 5 shows error about a missing artifact *#*!*.*

Question

How can I resolved this error that I see in Gradle after upgrading to Milestone 5:

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:: problems summary ::
:::: ERRORS
    a required artifact is not listed by module descriptor: *#*!*.*

Answer 1

It's gone after upgrading to gradle milestone 6 and after... not sure what caused it. I checked for empty dependencies as Ben suggested but that wasn't it. Anyways... problem some bug that just got fixed.

Answer 2

I had this problem because I was importing:

compile 'com.googlecode.linkedin-j:linkedin-j:1.0.416'

I should have been importing:

compile 'com.googlecode.linkedin-j:linkedin-j-core:1.0.416'

The difference here is that the first is a parent project not actually containing any jars of its own. If I downgraded to M3 it didn't spit any warnings on to the screen, but the real fix was to point at the right jar in the Maven repository.