2164752 - DEPLOY-SDM: NullPointerException error in SUM

During Execution step, DEPLOY-SDM phase fails with the following error message:

In the phase log: DEPLOY-SDM_XX.LOG you can find entries like these:

[Info  ]:   Command line: /usr/sap/<SID>/DVEBMGS<NR>/exe/sapjvm_5/bin/java -Xmx900M -Djava.ext.dir=/usr/sap/<SID>/DVEBMGS<NR>/SDM/program/lib:/usr/sap/<SID>/DVEBMGS<NR>/exe/sapjvm_5/jre/lib/ext -cp . -jar /usr/sap/<SID>/DVEBMGS<NR>/SDM/program/bin/SDM.jar shutdown Sdmguiport=50018 sdmHome=/usr/sap/<SID>/DVEBMGS<NR>/SDM/program logfile=<SUM_DIR>/sdt/log/SUM/OperateSDM_<NR>.LOG

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[Error ]: The following problem has occurred during step execution: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to invoke the method  java.lang.Process.destroy() of a null object returned from com.sap.sdt.tools.proc.OsProcess.getProcessObject().

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