After a succesfull mvn release:prepare, i tried the next step (mvn
release:perform), and I got this stacktrace:

INFO] [ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO] [INFO] 
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[INFO] [INFO] null
[INFO] [INFO] 
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[INFO] [INFO] Trace
[INFO] java.lang.NullPointerException
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.doxia.site.decoration.inheritance.PathUtils.getRelativePath(PathUtils.java:83)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.doxia.site.decoration.inheritance.PathUtils.convertPath(PathUtils.java:43)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.doxia.site.decoration.inheritance.DefaultDecorationModelInheritanceAssembler.convertPath(DefaultDecorationModelInheritanceAssembler.java:334)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.doxia.site.decoration.inheritance.DefaultDecorationModelInheritanceAssembler.resolveLinkItemPaths(DefaultDecorationModelInheritanceAssembler.java:255)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.doxia.site.decoration.inheritance.DefaultDecorationModelInheritanceAssembler.mergeLinkItemLists(DefaultDecorationModelInheritanceAssembler.java:277)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.doxia.site.decoration.inheritance.DefaultDecorationModelInheritanceAssembler.assembleBodyInheritance(DefaultDecorationModelInheritanceAssembler.java:192)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.doxia.site.decoration.inheritance.DefaultDecorationModelInheritanceAssembler.assembleModelInheritance(DefaultDecorationModelInheritanceAssembler.java:83)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.plugins.site.AbstractSiteRenderingMojo.getDecorationModel(AbstractSiteRenderingMojo.java:253)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.plugins.site.AbstractSiteRenderingMojo.getDecorationModel(AbstractSiteRenderingMojo.java:527)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.plugins.site.AbstractSiteRenderingMojo.createSiteRenderingContext(AbstractSiteRenderingMojo.java:466)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.plugins.site.SiteMojo.renderLocale(SiteMojo.java:113)
[INFO]  at org.apache.maven.plugins.site.SiteMojo.execute(SiteMojo.java:96)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:451)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:558)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:499)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:478)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:330)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:291)
[INFO]  at 
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:142)
[INFO]  at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:336)
[INFO]  at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129)
[INFO]  at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287)
[INFO]  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
[INFO]  at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
[INFO]  at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
[INFO]  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
[INFO]  at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
[INFO]  at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
[INFO]  at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
[INFO]  at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)


Any idea on where the problem might come from ,and how to fix it?
How can I recover a clean status ? I still would like to perform the
release..how can I do that ?

Also, i have plenty of .releaseBackup files in my working directory...

mvn -version reports:
Maven version: 2.0.9
Java version: 1.5.0_16
OS name: "mac os x" version: "10.5.6" arch: "i386" Family: "unix"

Thanks,
Valerio
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