[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] PageLayout.getLayoutRec throws an NPE

["exquisitus" <harsh.khanna@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello-

It seems we frequently get this exception, trying to update (our) plugin-jar 
in a deployed product base. The RCP application is deployed as a product.

Any ideas?
!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2006-12-22 14:31:00.213
!MESSAGE assertion failed:
!STACK 0
org.eclipse.core.runtime.AssertionFailedException: assertion failed:
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Assert.isTrue(Assert.java:109)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Assert.isTrue(Assert.java:95)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PageLayout.getViewLayoutRec(PageLayout.java:218)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PageLayout.addStandaloneView(PageLayout.java:805)
at 
com.scali.manage.ui.main.rcp.DataCenterPerspective.createInitialLayout(DataCenterPerspective.java:18)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.Perspective.loadPredefinedPersp(Perspective.java:697)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.Perspective.createPresentation(Perspective.java:219)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Perspective.<init>(Perspective.java:125)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.createPerspective(WorkbenchPage.java:1487)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.init(WorkbenchPage.java:2273)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.<init>(WorkbenchPage.java:543)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow.busyOpenPage(WorkbenchWindow.java:655)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.busyOpenWorkbenchWindow(Workbench.java:795)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.doOpenFirstTimeWindow(Workbench.java:1437)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$10(Workbench.java:1435)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$16.run(Workbench.java:1399)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runStartupWithProgress(Workbench.java:1421)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.openFirstTimeWindow(Workbench.java:1397)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchConfigurer.openFirstTimeWindow(WorkbenchConfigurer.java:190)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.application.WorkbenchAdvisor.openWindows(WorkbenchAdvisor.java:708)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.init(Workbench.java:1085)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:1847)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:419)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
at 
com.scali.manage.ui.main.rcp.Application.runVersionSafe(Application.java:39)
at com.scali.manage.ui.main.rcp.Application.run(Application.java:79)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:78)
at 
org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:92)
at 
org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:68)
at 
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:400)
at 
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:177)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:336)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:280)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:977)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:952)