Local VCS (Git) stuck on "Default updating...." in PhpStorm 2017.2.4

Hello,

What does `git status` say?

Is VCS > Git > Resolve Conflicts option active?

Are there any errors in Help > Show Log in Files > idea.log?

Hi, apologies for taking so long to respond.

I'm not sure what you mean by "git status."  Git is installed, and seems to be working correctly (I can manually use it (commit changes, create/destroy branches, push/pull to remote repos, etc.) in a bash terminal).  Moreover, when I go to Settings > Version Control > Git, and press "test," the test comes back positive.

The VCS > Git > Resolve Conflicts option is NOT active (it's grayed out in the menu)

The log has the following errors (kind of long):

2017-11-07 18:01:38,590 [ 41180] ERROR - .impl.MessageBusConnectionImpl - com/intellij/dvcs/DvcsUtil$Updater
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/intellij/dvcs/DvcsUtil$Updater
at git4idea.repo.GitRepositoryUpdater.<init>(GitRepositoryUpdater.java:65)
at git4idea.repo.GitRepositoryImpl.setupUpdater(GitRepositoryImpl.java:92)
at git4idea.repo.GitRepositoryImpl.getInstance(GitRepositoryImpl.java:85)
at git4idea.repo.GitRepositoryCreator.createRepositoryIfValid(GitRepositoryCreator.java:39)
at com.intellij.dvcs.repo.VcsRepositoryManager.a(VcsRepositoryManager.java:240)
at com.intellij.dvcs.repo.VcsRepositoryManager.a(VcsRepositoryManager.java:211)
at com.intellij.dvcs.repo.VcsRepositoryManager.directoryMappingChanged(VcsRepositoryManager.java:88)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusConnectionImpl.deliverMessage(MessageBusConnectionImpl.java:117)
at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.doPumpMessages(MessageBusImpl.java:443)
at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.pumpWaitingBuses(MessageBusImpl.java:404)
at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.pumpMessages(MessageBusImpl.java:393)
at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.pumpMessages(MessageBusImpl.java:381)
at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.sendMessage(MessageBusImpl.java:374)
at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.access$200(MessageBusImpl.java:45)
at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl$2.invoke(MessageBusImpl.java:231)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy54.directoryMappingChanged(Unknown Source)
at com.intellij.openapi.vcs.impl.projectlevelman.NewMappings.mappingsChanged(NewMappings.java:186)
at com.intellij.openapi.vcs.impl.projectlevelman.NewMappings.activateActiveVcses(NewMappings.java:124)
at com.intellij.openapi.vcs.impl.projectlevelman.NewMappings.d(NewMappings.java:93)
at com.intellij.openapi.vcs.impl.VcsInitialization.a(VcsInitialization.java:103)
at com.intellij.openapi.vcs.impl.VcsInitialization.access$000(VcsInitialization.java:43)
at com.intellij.openapi.vcs.impl.VcsInitialization$1.run(VcsInitialization.java:67)
at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager$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$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.intellij.dvcs.DvcsUtil$Updater PluginClassLoader[Git4Idea, 8.1] com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader@29f045f3
at com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader.loadClass(PluginClassLoader.java:65)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
... 39 more
2017-11-07 18:01:38,595 [ 41185] ERROR - .impl.MessageBusConnectionImpl - PhpStorm 2017.2.4 Build #PS-172.4155.41
2017-11-07 18:01:38,595 [ 41185] ERROR - .impl.MessageBusConnectionImpl - JDK: 1.8.0_152-release
2017-11-07 18:01:38,595 [ 41185] ERROR - .impl.MessageBusConnectionImpl - VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
2017-11-07 18:01:38,595 [ 41185] ERROR - .impl.MessageBusConnectionImpl - Vendor: JetBrains s.r.o
2017-11-07 18:01:38,595 [ 41185] ERROR - .impl.MessageBusConnectionImpl - OS: Linux
2017-11-07 18:01:38,595 [ 41185] ERROR - .impl.MessageBusConnectionImpl - Last Action:
2017-11-07 18:01:38,598 [ 41188] INFO - pl.projectlevelman.NewMappings - VCS Root: [Git] - [<Project>]
2017-11-07 18:01:38,599 [ 41189] INFO - pl.projectlevelman.NewMappings - VCS Root: [Git] - [/home/kevin/www/diva]
2017-11-07 18:01:41,250 [ 43840] INFO - tor.impl.FileEditorManagerImpl - Project opening took 21053 ms

Would it be possible to reinstall PhpStorm into an empty directory and check the issue again?

Running a fresh install in a separate directory works, so it looks like it might be an installation issue.  Should I simply reinstall?

Yep, unpacking newer versions to the same dir always causes issues.
Please purge the directory and unpack PhpStorm there anew.