Unable to deploy SPI-admin portlet in 6.2 - Null Pointer Exception

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 6.2.0 CE RC4, 6.2.0 CE RC5
• Fix Version/s: 6.2.0 CE RC4, 6.2.0 CE RC5
• Component/s: Fault Tolerance > Portlet Sandboxes, Portal Services, Portal Services > Component Management, Portal Services > Component Management > Hot Deployment
• Labels: None
• Environment: Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal master GIT ID: 2675acd450b32f1412820377372fa1594cdb10a5.
• Fix Priority: 5

Unable to deploy spi-admin-portlet.war portlet

These are the steps to reproduce:
1. Start Liferay
2. Deploy SPI-admin.war porlet
3. Assert exceptions

00:10:57,577 ERROR [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner][AutoDeployDir:92] com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployException: java.lang.NullPointerException
com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployException: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.autoDeploy(BaseDeployer.java:212)
        at com.liferay.portal.deploy.auto.ThreadSafeAutoDeployer.autoDeploy(ThreadSafeAutoDeployer.java:36)
        at com.liferay.portal.deploy.auto.PortletAutoDeployListener.deploy(PortletAutoDeployListener.java:88)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployDir.deploy(AutoDeployDir.java:50)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployDir.processFile(AutoDeployDir.java:209)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployDir.scanDirectory(AutoDeployDir.java:273)
        at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner.run(AutoDeployScanner.java:58)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.liferay.portal.deploy.auto.WAIAutoDeployer.copyXmls(WAIAutoDeployer.java:76)
        at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.deployDirectory(BaseDeployer.java:665)
        at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.deployFile(BaseDeployer.java:1060)
        at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.deployFile(BaseDeployer.java:992)
        at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.autoDeploy(BaseDeployer.java:209)
        ... 6 more