[Live-demo] Geonetwork - 5.0 beta2 - admin login fails

[maplabs at light42.com]

I booted on the VMb2 under VirtualBox
I started GeoNetwork, as shown below
I launched the Geonetwork desktop icon, which opened a browser window
I attempt to login as admin via password credentials below
However,
  an error page returns in the browser, with geonetwork styling, saying

The requested operation could not be performed. 

  NullPointerException :

(The requested operation could not be performed. NullPointerException)

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user at osgeo-live:~$ cat Desktop/passwords.txt
Application,UserName,Password
.. 
Geonetwork,admin,admin

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user at osgeo-live:~$ ps uax | grep geonet
user      2136 12.6 21.1 913052 217180 ?       Sl   
01:53   0:30 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java -Xms48m -Xmx512m -Xss2M 
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m -DSTOP.PORT=8879 
-Dmime-mappings=../web/geonetwork/WEB-INF/mime-types.properties 
-Djava.awt.headless=true -DSTOP.KEY=geonetwork -jar start.jar 
./bin/jetty.xml
user      2210 13.9  7.9 342212 81484 ?        Sl   
01:54   0:26 /usr/lib/firefox-5.0/firefox-bin 
http://localhost:8880/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home
user      2345  0.0  0.0   4156   864 pts/0    S+   
01:57   0:00 grep --color=auto geonet
user at osgeo-live:~$