Unable to import Maven project into IntelliJ IDEA

Question

I\'m having problems importing any Maven projects into IntelliJ IDEA. I create an empty Maven project like this:

$ mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.mycom         


        

Answer 1

It's a common problem related to networking and address resolution. In some cases localhost may not resolve and it's required to have

127.0.0.1 localhost

in /etc/hosts file. Also make sure there are no other IP addresses mapped to localhost.

See my comment in the related YouTrack issue for more details.