Creating a site from a template fails

• Type: Regression Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.1.20 EE GA2, 6.2.0 CE M2
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.X EE, 6.1.20 EE GA2, --Sprint 11/12, 6.2.0 CE M2
• Component/s: Site Templates
• Labels:
  • QA-R
• Branch Version/s:
  6.1.x, 6.0.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed
• Git Pull Request: https://github.com/brianchandotcom/liferay-portal/pull/5927

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to control panel -> Sites
2. Create a new Site based in Community Site
3. Leave all options as default

The site is created, but it doesn't contain any layout. At Tomcat log you get a NullPointerException:

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.liferay.portal.lar.PortletDataContextImpl.isValidPath(PortletDataContextImpl.java:1437)
at com.liferay.portal.lar.PortletDataContextImpl.getZipEntryAsByteArray(PortletDataContextImpl.java:801)
at com.liferay.portal.lar.LayoutImporter.doImportLayouts(LayoutImporter.java:477)
at com.liferay.portal.lar.LayoutImporter.importLayouts(LayoutImporter.java:143)
at com.liferay.portal.service.impl.LayoutLocalServiceImpl.importLayouts(LayoutLocalServiceImpl.java:1364)