loading wms from file halts JOSM

[xxlbiker]

Tried to load Yahoo wms from file for testing purpose. JOSM Error message came up suggesting to disable the WSM plugin.
Using Vista :-(
here's the dump:
Repository Root: ​http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn
Build-Date: 2010-06-11 01:31:34
Last Changed Author: stoecker
Revision: 3329
Repository UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
URL: ​http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Last Changed Date: 2010-06-10 09:53:42 +0200 (Thu, 10 Jun 2010)
Last Changed Rev: 3329

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (3329 de)
Memory Usage: 59 MB / 494 MB (17 MB allocated, but free)
Java version: 1.6.0_18, Sun Microsystems Inc., Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
Operating system: Windows Vista
Dataset consistency test: No problems found

Plugin: openstreetbugs (21706)
Plugin: remotecontrol (21706)
Plugin: validator (22004)
Plugin: wmsplugin (22008)

java.lang.NullPointerException

at wmsplugin.GeorefImage.paint(GeorefImage.java:63)
at wmsplugin.WMSLayer.downloadAndPaintVisible(WMSLayer.java:251)
at wmsplugin.WMSLayer.paint(WMSLayer.java:200)
at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.MapView.paint(MapView.java:516)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JSplitPane.paintChildren(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintToOffscreen(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager$PaintManager.paintDoubleBuffered(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager$PaintManager.paint(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager.paint(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent._paintImmediately(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintImmediately(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager.paintDirtyRegions(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager.paintDirtyRegions(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager.seqPaintDirtyRegions(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.SystemEventQueueUtilities$ComponentWorkRequest.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

[anonymous]

Closed as duplicate of #5187.