Build crashing

I'm trying to build inside a ubuntu 18.04 docker container. My goal is to produce a working [VSCode container](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers) for working on zetasql. The build keeps crashing with messages like:

```
ERROR: /workspaces/zetasql/zetasql/local_service/BUILD:101:1: Building zetasql/local_service/liblocal_service_proto-speed.jar (1 source jar) failed: Worker process quit or closed its stdin stream when we tried to send a WorkRequest:

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java.io.IOException: Stream closed
at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder$NullOutputStream.write(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.io.OutputStream.write(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.io.BufferedOutputStream.write(Unknown Source)
at com.google.protobuf.CodedOutputStream$OutputStreamEncoder.doFlush(CodedOutputStream.java:3003)
at com.google.protobuf.CodedOutputStream$OutputStreamEncoder.write(CodedOutputStream.java:2935)
at com.google.protobuf.CodedOutputStream$OutputStreamEncoder.writeLazy(CodedOutputStream.java:2954)
at com.google.protobuf.ByteString$LiteralByteString.writeTo(ByteString.java:1331)
at com.google.protobuf.CodedOutputStream$OutputStreamEncoder.writeBytesNoTag(CodedOutputStream.java:2751)
at com.google.protobuf.CodedOutputStream$OutputStreamEncoder.writeBytes(CodedOutputStream.java:2724)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.worker.WorkerProtocol$Input.writeTo(WorkerProtocol.java:223)
at com.google.protobuf.CodedOutputStream$OutputStreamEncoder.writeMessageNoTag(CodedOutputStream.java:2800)
at com.google.protobuf.CodedOutputStream$OutputStreamEncoder.writeMessage(CodedOutputStream.java:2775)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.worker.WorkerProtocol$WorkRequest.writeTo(WorkerProtocol.java:1009)
at com.google.protobuf.AbstractMessageLite.writeDelimitedTo(AbstractMessageLite.java:98)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.worker.WorkerSpawnRunner.execInWorker(WorkerSpawnRunner.java:330)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.worker.WorkerSpawnRunner.actuallyExec(WorkerSpawnRunner.java:172)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.worker.WorkerSpawnRunner.exec(WorkerSpawnRunner.java:121)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.exec.SpawnRunner.execAsync(SpawnRunner.java:225)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.exec.AbstractSpawnStrategy.exec(AbstractSpawnStrategy.java:123)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.exec.AbstractSpawnStrategy.exec(AbstractSpawnStrategy.java:88)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.actions.SpawnActionContext.beginExecution(SpawnActionContext.java:41)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.exec.ProxySpawnActionContext.beginExecution(ProxySpawnActionContext.java:60)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.actions.SpawnContinuation$1.execute(SpawnContinuation.java:80)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.rules.java.JavaCompileAction$JavaActionContinuation.execute(JavaCompileAction.java:495)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.rules.java.JavaCompileAction.beginExecution(JavaCompileAction.java:315)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.actions.Action.execute(Action.java:123)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.SkyframeActionExecutor$4.execute(SkyframeActionExecutor.java:832)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.SkyframeActionExecutor$ActionRunner.continueAction(SkyframeActionExecutor.java:966)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.SkyframeActionExecutor$ActionRunner.run(SkyframeActionExecutor.java:938)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ActionExecutionState.runStateMachine(ActionExecutionState.java:114)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ActionExecutionState.getResultOrDependOnFuture(ActionExecutionState.java:78)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.SkyframeActionExecutor.executeAction(SkyframeActionExecutor.java:562)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ActionExecutionFunction.checkCacheAndExecuteIfNeeded(ActionExecutionFunction.java:710)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.skyframe.ActionExecutionFunction.compute(ActionExecutionFunction.java:256)
at com.google.devtools.build.skyframe.AbstractParallelEvaluator$Evaluate.run(AbstractParallelEvaluator.java:450)
at com.google.devtools.build.lib.concurrent.AbstractQueueVisitor$WrappedRunnable.run(AbstractQueueVisitor.java:387)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
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```

How can I troubleshoot this?