#11 error on automatic update site

[Guy Korland]

On the new Eclipse 3.4 M6 I get the following error on install.

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.generator.features.DigestParser.parse(DigestParser.java:83)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.updatesite.UpdateSite.loadFeaturesFromDigest(UpdateSite.java:295)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.updatesite.UpdateSite.loadFeatures(UpdateSite.java:279)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.updatesite.metadata.UpdateSiteMetadataRepository.generateMetadata(UpdateSiteMetadataRepository.java:84)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.updatesite.metadata.UpdateSiteMetadataRepository.<init>(UpdateSiteMetadataRepository.java:66)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.updatesite.metadata.UpdateSiteMetadataRepositoryFactory.load(UpdateSiteMetadataRepositoryFactory.java:43)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:382)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:358)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.ui.query.QueryableMetadataRepositoryManager.query(QueryableMetadataRepositoryManager.java:89)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.ui.model.RemoteQueriedElement.fetchChildren(RemoteQueriedElement.java:56)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.ui.model.RemoteQueriedElement.fetchDeferredChildren(RemoteQueriedElement.java:35)
at org.eclipse.ui.progress.DeferredTreeContentManager$1.run(DeferredTreeContentManager.java:234)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)

[Lance Walton]

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This appears to be a problem with Eclipse 3.4 M6 as it affects other update sites too. I'll close this. If it does turn out to be a specific problem for this plugin, please re-open it.