assembleRelease hangs at bundleReleaseJsAndAssets after creating ReactPackager

Trying to create a signed apk hangs indefinitely at 89% on the bundleReleaseJsAndAssets step, after outputting bundle: Created ReactPackager. This is using react-native version 23, on Mac running version 10.11.4. I have the keystore generated and gradle files setup properly. I’ve tried restarting and cleaning. The following are the logs beginning at the relevant build step.

19:59:21.485 [INFO] [org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor] :app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets (Thread[Daemon worker,5,main]) started.
19:59:21.485 [LIFECYCLE] [class org.gradle.TaskExecutionLogger] :app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets
19:59:21.486 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter] Starting to execute task ':app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets'
19:59:21.486 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter] Determining if task ':app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets' is up-to-date
19:59:23.369 [INFO] [org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter] Executing task ':app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets' (up-to-date check took 1.883 secs) due to:
  No history is available.
19:59:23.369 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter] Executing actions for task ':app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets'.
19:59:23.370 [INFO] [org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle] Starting process 'command 'react-native''. Working directory: /Users/andrewtoth/Workspace/rspore Command: react-native bundle --platform android --dev false --entry-file index.android.js --bundle-output /Users/andrewtoth/Workspace/rspore/android/app/build/intermediates/assets/release/index.android.bundle --assets-dest /Users/andrewtoth/Workspace/rspore/android/app/build/intermediates/res/merged/release
19:59:23.370 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle] Environment for process 'command 'react-native'': {PATH=/Users/andrewtoth/.nvm/versions/node/v5.9.0/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin, JAVA_ARCH=x86_64, MANPATH=/Users/andrewtoth/.nvm/versions/node/v5.9.0/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/MacGPG2/share/man:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk/usr/share/man:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/man:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/share/man, JAVA_MAIN_CLASS_3043=org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain, APP_ICON_3043=/Users/andrewtoth/Workspace/rspore/android/media/gradle.icns, APP_NAME_3043=Gradle, TERM=xterm-256color, LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, ANDROID_HOME=/Users/andrewtoth/Library/Android/sdk, LOGNAME=andrewtoth, NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR=https://nodejs.org/dist, TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=361.1, PWD=/Users/andrewtoth/Workspace/rspore/android, XPC_SERVICE_NAME=0, NVM_CD_FLAGS=, SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash, NVM_DIR=/Users/andrewtoth/.nvm, TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal, NVM_PATH=/Users/andrewtoth/.nvm/versions/node/v5.9.0/lib/node, OLDPWD=/Users/andrewtoth/Workspace/rspore/android, SECURITYSESSIONID=186a7, USER=andrewtoth, TMPDIR=/var/folders/rk/_130h6297tqggkt_m46j4yhr0000gn/T/, SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.OAkPpQxQiA/Listeners, XPC_FLAGS=0x0, TERM_SESSION_ID=DE31D2B6-9EE3-4C6D-A01A-ADDF6F1387E0, NVM_IOJS_ORG_MIRROR=https://iojs.org/dist, __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0x0:0x0, Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.QFoEd78Blt/Render, com.apple.java.jvmTask=CommandLine, NVM_BIN=/Users/andrewtoth/.nvm/versions/node/v5.9.0/bin, SHLVL=1, HOME=/Users/andrewtoth}
19:59:23.370 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle] Changing state to: STARTING
19:59:23.370 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle] Waiting until process started: command 'react-native'.
19:59:23.373 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle] Changing state to: STARTED
19:59:23.373 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.process.internal.ExecHandleRunner] waiting until streams are handled...
19:59:23.373 [INFO] [org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle] Successfully started process 'command 'react-native''
19:59:25.804 [QUIET] [system.out] bundle: Created ReactPackager

[alexustinovsm]

I have the same problem and bundleReleaseJsAndAssets task freezes.

react-native: 0.40.0

[patwaswapnil]

Try this workaround -

gradlew assembleRelease --console plain