I have a test IDM 4.8 environment running on RHEL 7.  When I try to import the project into Designer, it throws a Java null pointer exception and won't import anything except the vault and schema -- no drivers. 

I've tried this from three different machines running two different versions of Designer (4.7 and 4.8) with the same result.  Has anyone else seen this?

(editing to add that I am able to import projects from three other IDM environments - two 4.8 and one 4.6.4 -  without this problem)

Here is the error:

java.lang.NullPointerException

com.novell.idm.deploy.internal.importer.DeployImporter$Importer.doImport(DeployImporter.java:1215)
com.novell.idm.deploy.internal.importer.DeployImporter.importFromEDirectory(DeployImporter.java:2329)
com.novell.idm.deploy.internal.DeployImportAction.performImports(DeployImportAction.java:1702)
com.novell.idm.deploy.internal.DeployImportAction.access$1(DeployImportAction.java:1313)
com.novell.idm.deploy.internal.DeployImportAction$2.run(DeployImportAction.java:1201)
org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext.runInCurrentThread(ModalContext.java:466)
org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext.run(ModalContext.java:374)
org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.ProgressMonitorDialog.run(ProgressMonitorDialog.java:527)
com.novell.idm.deploy.internal.DeployImportAction.performImports(DeployImportAction.java:1219)
com.novell.idm.deploy.internal.DeployImportAction.runWithInfo(DeployImportAction.java:279)
com.novell.idm.deploy.project.ProjectManager.addProjectWithListOfDriverSetsAndDrivers(ProjectManager.java:451)
com.novell.idm.projectview.internal.wizards.importproject.ChooseDSPage$7.execute(ChooseDSPage.java:1048)
org.eclipse.ui.actions.WorkspaceModifyOperation$1.run(WorkspaceModifyOperation.java:106)
org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.run(Workspace.java:2313)
org.eclipse.ui.actions.WorkspaceModifyOperation.run(WorkspaceModifyOperation.java:118)
org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext.runInCurrentThread(ModalContext.java:466)
org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext.run(ModalContext.java:374)
org.eclipse.jface.wizard.WizardDialog.run(WizardDialog.java:1059)
com.novell.idm.projectview.internal.wizards.importproject.ChooseDSPage.performFinish(ChooseDSPage.java:1063)
com.novell.idm.projectview.internal.wizards.importproject.TreeImportWizard.performFinish(TreeImportWizard.java:52)
org.eclipse.jface.wizard.WizardDialog.finishPressed(WizardDialog.java:853)
org.eclipse.jface.wizard.WizardDialog.buttonPressed(WizardDialog.java:438)
org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog$2.widgetSelected(Dialog.java:619)
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:248)
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:4353)
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1061)
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4172)
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3761)
org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.runEventLoop(Window.java:832)
org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:808)
com.novell.idm.projectview.internal.ImportProjectAction.run(ImportProjectAction.java:68)
org.eclipse.ui.internal.PluginAction.runWithEvent(PluginAction.java:253)
org.eclipse.ui.internal.WWinPluginAction.runWithEvent(WWinPluginAction.java:237)
org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:595)
org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$2(ActionContributionItem.java:511)
org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$5.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:420)
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:4353)
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1061)
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4172)
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3761)
org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$9.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1151)
org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1032)
org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:148)
org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:636)
org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:579)
org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:150)
com.novell.idm.rcp.DesignerApplication.start(DesignerApplication.java:118)
org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196)
org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:134)
org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:104)
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:380)
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:235)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:648)
org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:603)
org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1465)
org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1438)