sbt fails with java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sbt/ConsoleOut$

sbt, scala, ubuntu

Solution

the only thing I remember doing was installing the new intellij (v13). Is this related?

It could be related.

Try:

rm -rf ~/.ivy/cache
mv ~/.sbt ~/.sbt.old

Problem

After using sbt for some time, something failed and I can't run sbt on my Ubuntu machine. I get this exception no matter what I do. Even running `sbt help` causes the following error: ``` java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sbt/ConsoleOut$ at sbt.StandardMain$.<init>(Main.scala:52) at sbt.StandardMain$.<clinit>(Main.scala) at sbt.xMain.run(Main.scala:26) at xsbt.boot.Launch$$anonfun$run$1.apply(Launch.scala:57) at xsbt.boot.Launch$.withContextLoader(Launch.scala:77) at xsbt.boot.Launch$.run(Launch.scala:57) at xsbt.boot.Launch$$anonfun$explicit$1.apply(Launch.scala:45) at xsbt.boot.Launch$.launch(Launch.scala:65) at xsbt.boot.Launch$.apply(Launch.scala:16) at xsbt.boot.Boot$.runImpl(Boot.scala:32) at xsbt.boot.Boot$.main(Boot.scala:21) at xsbt.boot.Boot.main(Boot.scala) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sbt.ConsoleOut$ at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358) ... 12 more Error during sbt execution: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sbt/ConsoleOut$ ``` I reinstalled the JDK and of course sbt, but it didn't help. The only thing I remember doing was installing the new IntelliJ IDEA 13. Could this be related?

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