crashes while starting after system upgrade

[osm@…]

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Starting JOSM on SUSE 13.2 after upgrade from SUSE 12.3

What is the expected result?

JOSM Window appears on Screen

What happens instead?

Error Message window. Starting window contains:
Zwischengespeicherte Dateien der Erweiterungsquellen werden verarbeitet

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if possible.

Revision: 7906
Repository Root: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn
Relative URL: ^/trunk
Last Changed Author: Don-vip
Last Changed Date: 2014-12-29 00:13:58 +0100 (Mon, 29 Dec 2014)
Build-Date: 2014-12-29 00:11:17
URL: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Repository UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
Last Changed Rev: 7906

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (7906 de) Linux openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64)
Memory Usage: 116 MB / 910 MB (95 MB allocated, but free)
Java version: 1.8.0_40, Oracle Corporation, OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM

Plugins:
- PicLayer
- editgpx
- imagery_offset_db
- openvisible
- photo_geotagging
- poly
- reverter
- turnrestrictions
- undelete

Last errors/warnings:
- E: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageReader.initReaderIDs(Ljava/lang/Class;Ljava/lang/Class;Ljava/lang/Class;)V. Ursache: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageReader.initReaderIDs(Ljava/lang/Class;Ljava/lang/Class;Ljava/lang/Class;)V
- E: java.lang.NullPointerException

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.PluginHandler.buildListOfPluginsToLoad(PluginHandler.java:777)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.MainApplication.main(MainApplication.java:413)

[osm@…]

Falling back to java 1.7 solves the problem.

[Don-vip]

Closed as duplicate of #10603.