IntelliJ 2017.2.4 doesn't compile

usually i use cmd-line ant scripts to compile my projects, however, now and then it is handy to write a small class with a static main(), compile and run it to have some quick results.

somehow that compile from IDE is broken since a while: compile-message says 'compilation finished in 3 milliseconds', but no output folder exists. When source has obvious syntax errors, no error-msg from compiler. So it seems, compiler doesn't even look at my sources. Checking project structure doesn't show anything unusual.

In a file 'idea.log' i found this stacktrace, which seems to indicate ( the NoSuchMethodExceptions) , that there is something wrong in IntelliJ.

Any ideas?

2017-09-16 13:30:19,179 [4955897]  ERROR - ij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver - IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2.4  Build #IU-172.4155.36
2017-09-16 13:30:19,179 [4955897]  ERROR - ij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver - JDK: 1.8.0_152-release
2017-09-16 13:30:19,179 [4955897]  ERROR - ij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver - VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
2017-09-16 13:30:19,179 [4955897]  ERROR - ij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver - Vendor: JetBrains s.r.o
2017-09-16 13:30:19,179 [4955897]  ERROR - ij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver - OS: Windows 7
2017-09-16 13:30:19,179 [4955897]  ERROR - ij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver - Last Action: Rerun
2017-09-16 13:30:19,179 [4955897]   INFO - lij.compiler.impl.CompilerUtil -     COMPILATION FINISHED (BUILD PROCESS); Errors: 0; warnings: 0 took 7 ms: 0 min 0sec
2017-09-16 13:31:36,229 [5032947]   INFO - pl.ProjectRootManagerComponent - project roots have changed
2017-09-16 13:31:36,519 [5033237]   INFO - .diagnostic.PerformanceWatcher - Pushing properties took 0ms; general responsiveness: ok; EDT responsiveness: ok
2017-09-16 13:31:36,547 [5033265]   INFO - .diagnostic.PerformanceWatcher - Indexable file iteration took 27ms; general responsiveness: ok; EDT responsiveness: ok
2017-09-16 13:31:36,547 [5033265]   INFO - indexing.UnindexedFilesUpdater - Unindexed files update started: 1 files to update
2017-09-16 13:31:36,606 [5033324]   INFO - .diagnostic.PerformanceWatcher - Unindexed files update took 59ms; general responsiveness: ok; EDT responsiveness: ok
2017-09-16 13:31:40,178 [5036896]   INFO - ij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver - COMPILATION STARTED (BUILD PROCESS)
2017-09-16 13:31:40,178 [5036896]  ERROR - ij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver - org.jetbrains.jps.model.serialization.JpsProjectLoader.getDirectoryBaseProjectName(Ljava/io/File;)Ljava/lang/String;
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.jetbrains.jps.model.serialization.JpsProjectLoader.getDirectoryBaseProjectName(Ljava/io/File;)Ljava/lang/String;
    at org.jetbrains.jps.incremental.Utils.getDataStorageRoot(Utils.java:88)
    at com.intellij.compiler.server.BuildManager.getProjectSystemDirectory(BuildManager.java:1319)
    at com.intellij.compiler.impl.JavaModuleIndexBuildTask.execute(JavaModuleIndexBuildTask.kt:37)
    at com.intellij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver.a(CompileDriver.java:599)
    at com.intellij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver.a(CompileDriver.java:417)
    at com.intellij.compiler.progress.CompilerTask.run(CompilerTask.java:197)
    at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager$TaskRunnable.run(CoreProgressManager.java:718)
    at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.a(CoreProgressManager.java:170)
    at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.a(CoreProgressManager.java:548)
    at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.executeProcessUnderProgress(CoreProgressManager.java:493)
    at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.ProgressManagerImpl.executeProcessUnderProgress(ProgressManagerImpl.java:94)
    at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.runProcess(CoreProgressManager.java:157)
    at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.ProgressManagerImpl$2.run(ProgressManagerImpl.java:165)
    at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl$2.run(ApplicationImpl.java:342)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
2017-09-16 13:31:40,179 [5036897]  ERROR - ij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver - IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2.4  Build #IU-172.4155.36
2017-09-16 13:31:40,179 [5036897]  ERROR - ij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver - JDK: 1.8.0_152-release
2017-09-16 13:31:40,179 [5036897]  ERROR - ij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver - VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
2017-09-16 13:31:40,179 [5036897]  ERROR - ij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver - Vendor: JetBrains s.r.o
2017-09-16 13:31:40,179 [5036897]  ERROR - ij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver - OS: Windows 7
2017-09-16 13:31:40,179 [5036897]  ERROR - ij.compiler.impl.CompileDriver - Last Action: Compile
2017-09-16 13:31:40,179 [5036897]   INFO - lij.compiler.impl.CompilerUtil -     COMPILATION FINISHED (BUILD PROCESS); Errors: 0; warnings: 0 took 8 ms: 0 min 0sec