This issue was originally marked as duplicate of issue 166703, that is already resolved. This issue is still valid, so this seems to be another issue, but it might be related.

Build: NetBeans IDE 6.7 (Build 200906241340)
VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM, 1.5.0_19-137, Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition, 1.5.0_19-b02-304
OS: Mac OS X, 10.5.7, i386

User Comments:
SteveFyfe: Installed Jira bugtrack plugin. Configured a Jira host. Displayed a list of issues.

Went to Jira webapp and created a new saved query to select issues. Back in NB I tried to refresh the list of Jira queries so that I could select the new one. Nothing I did would refresh the list, so I quit NB and restarted to see if that would force a refresh.

After the relaunch, selected Find Issue from Team menu and error icon appeared in status bar.



Stacktrace: 
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.netbeans.libs.bugtracking.BugtrackingRuntime.addRepositoryConnector(BugtrackingRuntime.java:120)
        at org.netbeans.modules.jira.Jira.<init>(Jira.java:87)
        at org.netbeans.modules.jira.Jira.getInstance(Jira.java:92)
        at org.netbeans.modules.jira.JiraConnector.getRepositories(JiraConnector.java:77)
        at org.netbeans.modules.bugtracking.BugtrackingManager.getRepositories(BugtrackingManager.java:119)
        at org.netbeans.modules.bugtracking.BugtrackingManager.getKnownRepositories(BugtrackingManager.java:104)