NPE rendering velocity for portlet

2005-10-07 19:55:44,472 INFO [atlassian.jira.upgrade.ConsistencyCheckImpl] Starting JIRA Enterprise Edition, Version: 3.3.2-#98^M
2005-10-07 19:55:44,472 INFO [atlassian.jira.upgrade.ConsistencyCheckImpl] Configured to use database: mysql^M
07-oct.-2005 19:55:44 org.quartz.core.QuartzScheduler start^M
INFO: Scheduler JiraQuartzScheduler_$_NON_CLUSTERED started.^M
[Filter: profiling] Using parameter [jira_profile]^M
[Filter: profiling] defaulting to off [autostart=false]^M
[Filter: profiling] Turning filter off [jira_profile=off]^M
07-oct.-2005 19:55:46 com.atlassian.jira.web.dispatcher.JiraServletDispatcher init^M
ATTENTION: Unable to find 'webwork.multipart.saveDir' property setting. Defaulting to javax.servlet.context.tempdir^M
07-oct.-2005 19:55:46 com.atlassian.jira.web.dispatcher.JiraServletDispatcher init^M
INFO: Action dispatcher initialized^M
07-oct.-2005 19:55:46 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start^M
INFO: Démarrage de Coyote HTTP/1.1 sur http-80^M
07-oct.-2005 19:55:46 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start^M
INFO: Démarrage de Coyote HTTP/1.1 sur http-443^M
07-oct.-2005 19:55:46 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init^M
INFO: JK2: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009^M
07-oct.-2005 19:55:46 org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start^M
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/47  config=C:\tools\tomcat-4.1\conf\jk2.properties^M
Server is not supporting gzip-file-contents request^M
Server is not supporting gzip-file-contents request^M
Server is not supporting gzip-file-contents request^M
2005-10-07 19:56:38,863 ERROR [com.atlassian.velocity.DefaultVelocityManager] Exception getting message body from Velocity: java.lang.NullPointerException^M
java.lang.NullPointerException^M
    at org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.getTemplate(RuntimeInstance.java:831)^M
    at org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.mergeTemplate(VelocityEngine.java:440)^M
    at com.atlassian.velocity.DefaultVelocityManager.getEncodedBody(DefaultVelocityManager.java:76)^M
    at com.atlassian.velocity.DefaultVelocityManager.getEncodedBody(DefaultVelocityManager.java:60)^M
    at com.atlassian.velocity.DefaultVelocityManager.getEncodedBody(DefaultVelocityManager.java:55)^M
    at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.JiraResourcedModuleDescriptor.getHtml(JiraResourcedModuleDescriptor.java:80)^M
    at com.atlassian.jira.portal.PortletImpl.getViewHtml(PortletImpl.java:65)^M
    at com.atlassian.jira.portal.portlets.AbstractRequiresUserPortlet.getViewHtml(AbstractRequiresUserPortlet.java:25)^M
    at org.apache.jsp.dashboard_jsp._jspService(dashboard_jsp.java:1044)^M