Unable to import maven project in IntelliJ14

I'm trying to import the Maven projects from IntelliJ button (the one with the arrows in circle), but I get the following message "Unable to import maven project. See logs for details", as shown in the following picture

If I go into the log, I see:

2015-06-01 11:16:46,932 [  89176]  ERROR -      #org.jetbrains.idea.maven - org/apache/maven/execution/MavenExecutionRequestPopulationException 
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/maven/execution/MavenExecutionRequestPopulationException
    at org.jetbrains.idea.maven.server.Maven32ServerImpl.applyProfiles(Maven32ServerImpl.java:81)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:322)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:177)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:174)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:173)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:556)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(TCPTransport.java:811)
    at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:670)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.maven.execution.MavenExecutionRequestPopulationException
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
    ... 16 more
2015-06-01 11:16:46,933 [  89177]  ERROR -      #org.jetbrains.idea.maven - IntelliJ IDEA 14.1.3  Build #IU-141.1010.3 
2015-06-01 11:16:46,933 [  89177]  ERROR -      #org.jetbrains.idea.maven - JDK: 1.7.0_71 
2015-06-01 11:16:46,933 [  89177]  ERROR -      #org.jetbrains.idea.maven - VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 
2015-06-01 11:16:46,933 [  89177]  ERROR -      #org.jetbrains.idea.maven - Vendor: Oracle Corporation 
2015-06-01 11:16:46,933 [  89177]  ERROR -      #org.jetbrains.idea.maven - OS: Linux 
2015-06-01 11:16:46,933 [  89177]  ERROR -      #org.jetbrains.idea.maven - Last Action: Maven.Reimport 

I'm using Maven 3.3.3 and JDK 1.7.0_71 on a 64bit Ubuntu machine.

Strange thing, is that I can use Maven by command line. Any idea?

Below one worked for me ;

Go to File > Settings > Build,Execution,Deployment> Build Tools > Maven > Importing .

Change VM options for importer to -Didea.maven3.use.compat.resolver

Solved. I had to remove the IntelliJ project folder (.idea) and create a new project from the existing source clicking on the parent pom. Then, everything worked properly.

I guess that some file was corrupted.

In steps. Initially you have something like:

After deleting the .idea folder you will have:

So you close the project and start one from existing sources:

You select the pom.xml file to create the new project and oveeride the IntelliJ project if one was found.

Now you should see exactly the same as in the first picture.