Hi,
I tried to upgrade our developer Tools to the following versions:
Eclipse indigo
M2e eclipse maven plugin  1.2.0
Maven 3.0.4
 
Now I have a problem to import any of our eclipse projects into eclipse.
 
I receive some Nullpointer exceptions during the import.
We use parent pom files in the project 
 
base/
|-- common-base
|   |-- shared-common-base
|   |   `-- pom.xml
|   `-- pom.xml
`-- pom.xml
 
 
Any Idea?
 
Regards
Gaetano
 
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.jobs 4 2 2012-11-02 07:58:54.340
!MESSAGE An internal error occurred during: "Importing Maven projects".
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.lifecyclemapping.model.PluginExecutionFilter.match(PluginExecutionFilter.java:323)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.lifecyclemapping.SimpleMappingMetadataSource.getPluginExecutionMetadata(SimpleMappingMetadataSource.java:71)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.lifecyclemapping.LifecycleMappingFactory.calculateEffectiveLifecycleMappingMetadata(LifecycleMappingFactory.java:490)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.lifecyclemapping.LifecycleMappingFactory.calculateEffectiveLifecycleMappingMetadata(LifecycleMappingFactory.java:224)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.lifecyclemapping.LifecycleMappingFactory.calculateLifecycleMapping(LifecycleMappingFactory.java:175)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.ProjectRegistryManager.setupLifecycleMapping(ProjectRegistryManager.java:527)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.ProjectRegistryManager.refresh(ProjectRegistryManager.java:446)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.ProjectRegistryManager.refresh(ProjectRegistryManager.java:328)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.ProjectRegistryManager.refresh(ProjectRegistryManager.java:279)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.ProjectConfigurationManager.configureNewMavenProject(ProjectConfigurationManager.java:210)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.ProjectConfigurationManager.importProjects(ProjectConfigurationManager.java:156)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.ui.internal.wizards.MavenImportWizard$1.doCreateMavenProjects(MavenImportWizard.java:171)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.ui.internal.wizards.AbstractCreateMavenProjectsOperation.run(AbstractCreateMavenProjectsOperation.java:73)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.ui.internal.wizards.MavenImportWizard$3.runInWorkspace(MavenImportWizard.java:256)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.InternalWorkspaceJob.run(InternalWorkspaceJob.java:38)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)
 
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.resources 4 2 2012-11-02 07:58:54.890
!MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.core.resources".
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.lifecyclemapping.model.PluginExecutionFilter.match(PluginExecutionFilter.java:323)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.lifecyclemapping.SimpleMappingMetadataSource.getPluginExecutionMetadata(SimpleMappingMetadataSource.java:71)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.lifecyclemapping.LifecycleMappingFactory.calculateEffectiveLifecycleMappingMetadata(LifecycleMappingFactory.java:490)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.lifecyclemapping.LifecycleMappingFactory.calculateEffectiveLifecycleMappingMetadata(LifecycleMappingFactory.java:224)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.lifecyclemapping.LifecycleMappingFactory.calculateLifecycleMapping(LifecycleMappingFactory.java:175)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.ProjectRegistryManager.setupLifecycleMapping(ProjectRegistryManager.java:527)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.ProjectRegistryManager.refresh(ProjectRegistryManager.java:446)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.ProjectRegistryManager.refresh(ProjectRegistryManager.java:328)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.ProjectRegistryManager.refresh(ProjectRegistryManager.java:279)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.MavenProjectManager.refresh(MavenProjectManager.java:58)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.builder.MavenBuilder.build(MavenBuilder.java:87)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$2.run(BuildManager.java:728)
                at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:199)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:239)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$1.run(BuildManager.java:292)
                at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:295)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuildLoop(BuildManager.java:351)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.build(BuildManager.java:374)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.AutoBuildJob.doBuild(AutoBuildJob.java:143)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.AutoBuildJob.run(AutoBuildJob.java:241)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)
 
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.resources 4 75 2012-11-02 07:58:54.900
!MESSAGE Errors occurred during the build.
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.m2e.core 4 75 2012-11-02 07:58:54.900
!MESSAGE Errors running builder 'Maven Project Builder' on project 'common-shared'.
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.lifecyclemapping.model.PluginExecutionFilter.match(PluginExecutionFilter.java:323)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.lifecyclemapping.SimpleMappingMetadataSource.getPluginExecutionMetadata(SimpleMappingMetadataSource.java:71)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.lifecyclemapping.LifecycleMappingFactory.calculateEffectiveLifecycleMappingMetadata(LifecycleMappingFactory.java:490)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.lifecyclemapping.LifecycleMappingFactory.calculateEffectiveLifecycleMappingMetadata(LifecycleMappingFactory.java:224)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.lifecyclemapping.LifecycleMappingFactory.calculateLifecycleMapping(LifecycleMappingFactory.java:175)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.ProjectRegistryManager.setupLifecycleMapping(ProjectRegistryManager.java:527)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.ProjectRegistryManager.refresh(ProjectRegistryManager.java:446)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.ProjectRegistryManager.refresh(ProjectRegistryManager.java:328)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.ProjectRegistryManager.refresh(ProjectRegistryManager.java:279)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.project.registry.MavenProjectManager.refresh(MavenProjectManager.java:58)
                at org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.builder.MavenBuilder.build(MavenBuilder.java:87)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$2.run(BuildManager.java:728)
                at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:199)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:239)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$1.run(BuildManager.java:292)
                at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:295)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuildLoop(BuildManager.java:351)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.build(BuildManager.java:374)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.AutoBuildJob.doBuild(AutoBuildJob.java:143)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.AutoBuildJob.run(AutoBuildJob.java:241)
                at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)
 
!ENTRY org.eclipse.m2e.logback.appender 4 0 2012-11-02 07:58:55.281
!MESSAGE