It looks like if goals==null, this will happen. But as near as I can tell, this is hasn't been released yet. Are you using a snapshot version of the release plugin (bad idea, imho).
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [mojo-user] release perform null pointer exception Hi All, I have a NullPointerException while doing a release perform, not able to figure out why. Here is the stack trace. [INFO] [release:perform] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] null [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.StringTokenizer.<init>(StringTokenizer.java:182) at java.util.StringTokenizer.<init>(StringTokenizer.java:219) at org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringUtils.split(StringUtils.java:520) at org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringUtils.split(StringUtils.java:484) at org.apache.maven.plugins.release.PerformReleaseMojo.execute(PerformRelea seMojo.java:101) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginMa nager.java:443) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(Default LifecycleExecutor.java:539) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoa l(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:493) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultL ifecycleExecutor.java:463) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandle Failures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:311) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:224) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifec ycleExecutor.java:143) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:334) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:125) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:272) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.jav a:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessor Impl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375) [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 2 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Thu Apr 17 13:54:32 EDT 2008 [INFO] Final Memory: 6M/127M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Could somebosy please let me know if there is a way to debug this. Thanks...
