Thanks for investigating. If it helps I have just tested this module in the standard 4.0.8 and 4.2.2 distributions downloaded from the Karaf website.
It works fine on 4.0.8; 4.2.2 is failing with the same message as my custom distribution. -- Sent from: http://karaf.922171.n3.nabble.com/Karaf-User-f930749.html