JIRA startup can fail non-deterministically with NullPointerException

JIRA may fail to start intermittently with a NullPointerException. For example:

[22:21:59][info][talledLocalContainer] 21/03/2011 10:21:59 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
[22:21:59][info][talledLocalContainer] INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
[22:21:59][info][talledLocalContainer] 21/03/2011 10:21:59 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
[22:21:59][info][talledLocalContainer] INFO: Initialization processed in 420 ms
[22:21:59][info][talledLocalContainer] 21/03/2011 10:21:59 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
[22:21:59][info][talledLocalContainer] INFO: Starting service Catalina
[22:21:59][info][talledLocalContainer] 21/03/2011 10:21:59 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
[22:21:59][info][talledLocalContainer] INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.28
[22:21:59][info][talledLocalContainer] 21/03/2011 10:21:59 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
[22:21:59][info][talledLocalContainer] INFO: XML validation disabled
[22:22:01][info][talledLocalContainer] 2011-03-21 22:22:01,311 main INFO [atlassian.jira.startup.JiraHomeStartupCheck] Configured jira.home '/opt/bamboo-agent/xml-data/build-dir/JIRAHEAD-CI-PCT/jira-distribution/jira-func-tests-runner/target/jirahome' does not exist. We will create it.
[22:22:01][info][talledLocalContainer] 2011-03-21 22:22:01,377 main INFO [atlassian.jira.startup.JiraHomeStartupCheck] The jira.home directory '/opt/bamboo-agent/xml-data/build-dir/JIRAHEAD-CI-PCT/jira-distribution/jira-func-tests-runner/target/jirahome' is validated and locked for exclusive use by this instance.
[22:22:02][info][talledLocalContainer] 21/03/2011 10:22:02 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
[22:22:02][info][talledLocalContainer] INFO: Deploying web application archive cargocpc.war
[22:22:02][info][talledLocalContainer] 21/03/2011 10:22:02 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
[22:22:02][info][talledLocalContainer] INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
[22:22:02][info][talledLocalContainer] 21/03/2011 10:22:02 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
[22:22:02][info][talledLocalContainer] INFO: Server startup in 2401 ms
[22:22:04][info][talledLocalContainer] Tomcat 5.5.28 started on port [8080]
[22:22:05][info][talledLocalContainer] 2011-03-21 22:22:05,224 http-8080-Processor24 ERROR anonymous 1342x1x1 - 127.0.0.1 /secure/admin/debug/logMessage.jsp [atlassian.jira.appconsistency.JiraSetupConfig] java.lang.NullPointerException
[22:22:05][info][talledLocalContainer] java.lang.NullPointerException
[22:22:05][info][talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager.getComponentInstanceOfType(ComponentManager.java:534)
[22:22:05][info][talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager.getComponent(ComponentManager.java:553)
[22:22:05][info][talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.jira.appconsistency.JiraSetupConfig.isSetup(JiraSetupConfig.java:52)
[22:22:05][info][talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.johnson.filters.AbstractJohnsonFilter.doFilter(AbstractJohnsonFilter.java:65)
[22:22:05][info][talledLocalContainer] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
[22:22:05][info][talledLocalContainer] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)