I was getting a similar problem with SBT and slf4j. Nothing had changed, but on one machine it suddenly wouldn't build.
I tried:
target/
~/.sbt/<scala-version>/
folder~/.ivy2
cacheNone of the above worked.
So, I had to bite the bullet and delete my entire ~/.ivy2/
cache folder and wait for 2GB of dependencies to be downloaded again. I'm not familiar with what sort of cache manifests get written in there, but this must have been a corruption of one of them.
(using SBT 2.10.4 for Spark builds)