I can't speak for Grails 2.x, but generally speaking this error is either caused by dependency conflicts (esp plugins that bring in a bunch of jars), or due to stale ivy caches.
"grails clean" helps, but I've often had to remove the directories manually. Check this thread for some good pointers:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6097279/java-lang-linkageerror-loader-constraint-violation-in-grails-project--
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