[FIXED] IntelliJ Idea IDE: Abnormal build process termination. How to fix that?

Issue

I guess that's because of Cyrillic symbols in paths which IDE cannot digest correctly during build process, but I cannot just rename this folder in Windows 10. Tried to make a junction using MKLINK \J, but it didn't help.. I suppose the Cyrillic symbols in Windows username made the IDE throw

java.nio.file.InvalidPathException: Illegal char <?> at index 9: C:/Users/????/AppData/Local/JetBrains/IdeaIC2022.1/log/build-log\build-log-jul.properties 

but I couldn't fix it. Reinstalling IDE didn't bring any luck

Abnormal build process termination: 
"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_171\bin\java.exe" -Xmx700m -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.endorsed.dirs=\"\" -Dcompile.parallel=false -Drebuild.on.dependency.change=true -Djdt.compiler.useSingleThread=true -Daether.connector.resumeDownloads=false -Dio.netty.initialSeedUniquifier=-4495793791689339547 -Dfile.encoding=windows-1252 -Duser.language=ru -Duser.country=RU -Didea.paths.selector=IdeaIC2022.1 "-Didea.home.path=C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1" -Didea.config.path=C:/Users/Егор/AppData/Roaming/JetBrains/IdeaIC2022.1 -Didea.plugins.path=C:/Users/Егор/AppData/Roaming/JetBrains/IdeaIC2022.1/plugins -Djps.log.dir=C:/Users/Егор/AppData/Local/JetBrains/IdeaIC2022.1/log/build-log "-Djps.fallback.jdk.home=C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/jbr" -Djps.fallback.jdk.version=11.0.14.1 -Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true -Djps.backward.ref.index.builder=true -Dkotlin.incremental.compilation=true -Dkotlin.incremental.compilation.js=true -Dkotlin.daemon.enabled -Dkotlin.daemon.client.alive.path=\"C:\Users\A946~1\AppData\Local\Temp\kotlin-idea-11640337927034352620-is-running\" "-Djps.kotlin.home=C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1\plugins\Kotlin\kotlinc" -Dtmh.instrument.annotations=true -Dtmh.generate.line.numbers=true -classpath "C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/java/lib/jps-launcher.jar;C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_171/lib/tools.jar" org.jetbrains.jps.cmdline.Launcher "C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/java/lib/jps-builders.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/java/lib/jps-builders-6.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/java/lib/jps-javac-extension.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/lib/util.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/lib/util_rt.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/lib/annotations.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/lib/3rd-party-rt.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/lib/jna.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/lib/lz4-java.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/lib/protobuf.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/lib/jps-model.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/java/lib/javac2.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/lib/forms_rt.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/java/lib/aether-dependency-resolver.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/lib/idea_rt.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/Kotlin/lib/jps/kotlin-jps-plugin.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/javaFX/lib/javaFX-jps.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/javaFX/lib/javaFX-common.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/eclipse/lib/eclipse-jps.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/eclipse/lib/eclipse-common.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/space/lib/space-java-jps.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/uiDesigner/lib/jps/java-guiForms-jps.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/IntelliLang/lib/java-langInjection-jps.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/Groovy/lib/groovy-jps.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/Groovy/lib/groovy-constants-rt.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/ant/lib/ant-jps.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/maven/lib/maven-jps.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/gradle-java/lib/gradle-jps.jar;C:/Program Files/JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2022.1/plugins/devkit/lib/devkit-jps.jar" org.jetbrains.jps.cmdline.BuildMain 127.0.0.1 64816 91edec9e-f56d-4682-b5b8-47178d281b2b C:/Users/Егор/AppData/Local/JetBrains/IdeaIC2022.1/compile-server
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at org.jetbrains.jps.cmdline.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:43)
Caused by: java.nio.file.InvalidPathException: Illegal char <?> at index 9: C:/Users/????/AppData/Local/JetBrains/IdeaIC2022.1/log/build-log\build-log-jul.properties
    at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser.normalize(WindowsPathParser.java:182)
    at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser.parse(WindowsPathParser.java:153)
    at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser.parse(WindowsPathParser.java:77)
    at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPath.parse(WindowsPath.java:94)
    at sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystem.getPath(WindowsFileSystem.java:255)
    at java.nio.file.Paths.get(Paths.java:84)
    at org.jetbrains.jps.cmdline.LogSetup.initLoggers(LogSetup.java:31)
    at org.jetbrains.jps.cmdline.BuildMain.<clinit>(BuildMain.java:47)
    ... 5 more

Solution

Here is the related bug in IntelliJ IDEA bug tracker:

Abnormal build process termination when OS user name contains non-Latin characters

Feel free to watch it in order to be notified once it has updates. See this article if you are not familiar with YouTrack.

As a workaround please consider installing IDE to a path with all the ascii characters or rename the OS user to have all the ascii letters. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Answered By - Konstantin Annikov
Answer Checked By - Willingham (JavaFixing Volunteer)