no message of the day on startup

[anonymous]

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. start up JOSM

What is the expected result?

see message of the day

What happens instead?

blank grey screen (the icons are there, downloading and editing works), no message of the day, no instructions etc.

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if possible.

URL:http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Repository:UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
Last:Changed Date: 2016-06-20 02:47:43 +0200 (Mon, 20 Jun 2016)
Build-Date:2016-06-20 01:34:14
Revision:10436
Relative:URL: ^/trunk

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (10436 en) Mac OS X 10.11.5
Memory Usage: 671 MB / 1820 MB (482 MB allocated, but free)
Java version: 1.8.0_66-b17, Oracle Corporation, Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
VM arguments: [-Dsun.java2d.opengl=true]

Plugins:
- TombPlugin (46)
- alignways (32161)
- apache-commons (32158)
- apache-http (32158)
- buildings_tools (32158)
- ejml (32158)
- geochat (32158)
- geotools (31895)
- imagery_offset_db (32158)
- jts (31906)
- opendata (32289)
- print (32191)
- proj4j (32158)
- reltoolbox (32158)
- reverter (32158)
- undelete (32158)
- utilsplugin2 (32158)

Map paint styles:
- https://josm.openstreetmap.de/josmfile?page=Styles/Lane_and_Road_Attributes&zip=1
- https://josm.openstreetmap.de/josmfile?page=Styles/MaxspeedIcons&zip=1

Last errors/warnings:
- E: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException. Cause: java.lang.NullPointerException

[dieterdreist]

sorry, forgot to log in, it's my ticket, if you have questions, don't hesitate

[Klumbumbus]

Closed as duplicate of #13009.