JOSM starting error

[Hedaja]

I have had problems stating the latest JOSM version for a while now. Whe stating it says that there was a problem and ask if I want to report it. The loading splash screen gets stuck at "Hintergrundeinstellung laden ("loaing backgroundsettings").
Here is the crash report:

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Repository Root: ​http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn
Build-Date: 2014-07-02 01:34:24
Last Changed Author: Don-vip
Revision: 7281
Repository UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
URL: ​http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Last Changed Date: 2014-07-01 20:31:49 +0200 (Tue, 01 Jul 2014)
Last Changed Rev: 7281

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (7281 de) Linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Memory Usage: 107 MB / 878 MB (52 MB allocated, but free)
Java version: 1.7.0_55, Oracle Corporation, OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
Java package: openjdk-7-jre:amd64-7u55-2.4.7-1ubuntu1

Plugin: FixAddresses
Plugin: HouseNumberTaggingTool
Plugin: OpeningHoursEditor
Plugin: RoadSigns
Plugin: buildings_tools
Plugin: contourmerge
Plugin: geochat
Plugin: gpsblam
Plugin: graphview
Plugin: imagery_offset_db
Plugin: kendzi3d
Plugin: kendzi3d-jogl
Plugin: log4j (30416)
Plugin: notes
Plugin: turnlanes
Plugin: turnrestrictions
Plugin: utilsplugin2

java.lang.RuntimeException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.NullPointerException

at org.openstreetmap.josm.Main.<init>(Main.java:569)
at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.MainApplication.<init>(MainApplication.java:78)
at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.MainApplication.main(MainApplication.java:405)

Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.NullPointerException

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:188)
at org.openstreetmap.josm.Main.<init>(Main.java:566)
... 2 more

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException

at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:138)
at org.openstreetmap.josm.io.CachedFile.getInputStream(CachedFile.java:179)
at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.tagging.TaggingPresetReader.readAll(TaggingPresetReader.java:235)
at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.tagging.TaggingPresetReader.readAll(TaggingPresetReader.java:263)
at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.tagging.TaggingPresetReader.readFromPreferences(TaggingPresetReader.java:299)
at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.tagging.TaggingPresets.readFromPreferences(TaggingPresets.java:36)
at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.tagging.TaggingPresets.initialize(TaggingPresets.java:43)
at org.openstreetmap.josm.Main$3.initialize(Main.java:543)
at org.openstreetmap.josm.Main$InitializationTask.call(Main.java:607)
at org.openstreetmap.josm.Main$InitializationTask.call(Main.java:591)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)

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running: Ubuntu 14.04 64bit