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Solution to Could not initialize class org codehaus groovy classgen Verifier Error

If you receive the error in the title while developing a project with Java, Kotlin and Gradle, the reason for the error is that the gradle.zip file in the distributionUrl path in the gradle-wrapper.properties file is incorrect or corrupt. You can solve the problem by changing the distributionUrl path as follows.

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.4.1-bin.zip