Gradle Build Failure

Hey, after updating from 0.33.0 to 0.36.0 I get the following error:

$ ./gradlew build    

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/home/tobias/projects/buggy/build.gradle' line: 2

* What went wrong:
Could not apply requested plugin [id: 'com.github.ben-manes.versions', version: '0.36.0'] as it does not provide a plugin with id 'com.github.ben-manes.versions'. This is caused by an incorrect plugin implementation. Please contact the plugin author(s).
> Plugin with id 'com.github.ben-manes.versions' not found.

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BUILD FAILED in 889ms

Gradle wrapper version:

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Gradle 6.7.1
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Build time:   2020-11-16 17:09:24 UTC
Revision:     2972ff02f3210d2ceed2f1ea880f026acfbab5c0

Kotlin:       1.3.72
Groovy:       2.5.12
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.8 compiled on May 10 2020
JVM:          11.0.9 (Oracle Corporation 11.0.9+0-adhoc..source)
OS:           Linux 5.4.78 amd64

To reproduce, you only need the following. This is my build.gradle

plugins {
    id 'com.github.ben-manes.versions' version '0.36.0'
}

This is my settings.gradle

rootProject.name = 'buggy'

[Gerschtli]

You are my hero, thank you! I just cleared my ~/.gradle directory which resolved the issue. Maybe there were some files corrupt, my hard drive had some issues lately.

Thank you for your quick responses and your time!

[ben-manes]

oh I am using gradle wrapper. I use this bash script for convenience which is nicer in multi-module projects.

Do you have any customizations in your ~/.gradle directory? For example init scripts or properties that might be interfering? Maybe your work disabled the plugin portal for their own, causing it to not resolve correctly for whatever reason?