gradle ASCII: A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'

Question

Friday gradle works fine, today I got this gradle error:

* Where:
Build file '...\git\project\app\build.gradle' line: 1
* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.
> ASCII

CONFIGURE FAILED in 4s
ASCII

error with gradle --debug:

...
10:29:50.018 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter]
10:29:50.018 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
10:29:50.018 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter]
10:29:50.018 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] * Where:
10:29:50.019 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] Build file '...\git\project\project\build.gradle' line: 1
10:29:50.019 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter]
10:29:50.019 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] * What went wrong:
10:29:50.019 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.
10:29:50.019 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] > ASCII
10:29:50.019 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter]
10:29:50.019 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] * Try:
10:29:50.019 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.  Run with --scan to get full insights.
10:29:50.019 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter]
10:29:50.019 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] * Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
10:29:50.019 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildResultLogger]
10:29:50.019 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildResultLogger] BUILD FAILED in 1s
10:29:50.019 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.internal.work.DefaultWorkerLeaseService] Worker lease root.1 completed (0 worker(s) in use)
10:29:50.019 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.internal.resources.AbstractTrackedResourceLock] Daemon worker: released lock on root.1
10:29:50.020 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor] Completing Build operation 'Run build'
10:29:50.020 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor] Build operation 'Run build' completed
10:29:50.022 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.LockOnDemandCrossProcessCacheAccess] Releasing file lock for cache directory md-supplier (C:\Users\Utente\.gradle\caches\4.10\md-supplier)
10:29:50.023 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultFileLockManager] Releasing lock on cache directory md-supplier (C:\Users\Utente\.gradle\caches\4.10\md-supplier).
10:29:50.025 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.LockOnDemandCrossProcessCacheAccess] Releasing file lock for cache directory md-rule (C:\Users\Utente\.gradle\caches\4.10\md-rule)
10:29:50.025 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultFileLockManager] Releasing lock on cache directory md-rule (C:\Users\Utente\.gradle\caches\4.10\md-rule).
10:29:50.026 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.resolveengine.store.CachedStoreFactory] Resolution result cache closed. Cache reads: 0, disk reads: 0 (avg: 0.0 secs, total: 0.0 secs)
10:29:50.027 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.resolveengine.store.CachedStoreFactory] Resolution result cache closed. Cache reads: 0, disk reads: 0 (avg: 0.0 secs, total: 0.0 secs)
10:29:50.027 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.resolveengine.store.ResolutionResultsStoreFactory] Deleted 2 resolution results binary files in 0.001 secs
10:29:50.027 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.deployment.internal.DefaultDeploymentRegistry] Stopping 0 deployment handles
10:29:50.028 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.deployment.internal.DefaultDeploymentRegistry] Stopped deployment handles
10:29:50.028 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.LockOnDemandCrossProcessCacheAccess] Releasing file lock for file hash cache (...\git\project\.gradle\4.10\fileHashes)
10:29:50.028 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultFileLockManager] Releasing lock on file hash cache (...\git\project\.gradle\4.10\fileHashes).
...

my app build.gradle

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'io.fabric'

repositories {
  …
}

my build.gradle version: 3.1.1

my gradle distribution version: 4.10

How Can I solve this issue? What is the problem?

Answer 1

I edited the android (project level) build.gradle file and changed

com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.1

to

com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.1

Answer 2

Just Follow these Steps in Android Studio

Click on the file in the menu bar

click on Project Structure

change Android Gradle plugin version to 3.5.1

sync again

Answer 3

The problem is with the Artifactory lib version. I use this lib org.jfrog.buildinfo:build-info-extractor-gradle and with the last version 4.9.1, I got the problem, whereas with the 4.9.0, all works fine.