After a successfull maven2 build the following exception is coming up. The exception is reproducible in all maven build jobs. Theses errors occurred after upgrading to 1.383 . Did a downgrade to 1.38.2. But still the sames errors. Maybe it is just a coincidence.

ERROR: Publisher hudson.plugins.ircbot.IrcPublisher aborted due to exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at hudson.plugins.im.IMPublisher.notifyChats(IMPublisher.java:430)
at hudson.plugins.im.IMPublisher.perform(IMPublisher.java:273)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$3.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:36)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.perform(AbstractBuild.java:601)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:580)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$RunnerImpl.post2(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:595)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.post(AbstractBuild.java:528)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1304)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:293)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:139)
FATAL: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.lang.String.startsWith(String.java:1421)
at java.lang.String.startsWith(String.java:1450)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$1.isDescendantOf(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:178)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$1.<init>(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:147)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.getChangeSetFor(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:141)
at hudson.maven.FilteredChangeLogSet.<init>(FilteredChangeLogSet.java:51)
at hudson.maven.MavenBuild.getChangeSet(MavenBuild.java:161)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild.hasParticipant(AbstractBuild.java:315)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.hasParticipant(AbstractProject.java:1255)
at hudson.model.User.getProjects(User.java:381)
at hudson.scm.SubversionMailAddressResolverImpl.findMailAddressFor(SubversionMailAddressResolverImpl.java:20)
at hudson.tasks.MailAddressResolver.resolve(MailAddressResolver.java:97)
at hudson.tasks.Mailer$UserProperty.getAddress(Mailer.java:496)
at hudson.tasks.MailSender.buildCulpritList(MailSender.java:380)
at hudson.tasks.MailSender.createEmptyMail(MailSender.java:345)
at hudson.tasks.MailSender.createFailureMail(MailSender.java:219)
at hudson.tasks.MailSender.getMail(MailSender.java:146)
at hudson.tasks.MailSender.execute(MailSender.java:94)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$RunnerImpl.cleanUp(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:619)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1323)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:293)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:139)

Any Idea ?

Cheers

Sisko