NPE when loading RecoverStandByProcedure

2018-11-16,21:06:04,676 ERROR [master/c4-hadoop-tst-ct05:19100:becomeActiveMaster] org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster: Failed to become active master
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.replication.RecoverStandbyProcedure.afterReplay(RecoverStandbyProcedure.java:151)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.replication.RecoverStandbyProcedure.afterReplay(RecoverStandbyProcedure.java:39)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure2.ProcedureExecutor.lambda$loadProcedures$1(ProcedureExecutor.java:524)
        at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1249)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure2.ProcedureExecutor.loadProcedures(ProcedureExecutor.java:509)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure2.ProcedureExecutor.access$400(ProcedureExecutor.java:78)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure2.ProcedureExecutor$2.load(ProcedureExecutor.java:330)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure2.store.wal.WALProcedureStore$2.load(WALProcedureStore.java:474)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure2.store.wal.ProcedureWALFormatReader.finish(ProcedureWALFormatReader.java:148)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure2.store.wal.ProcedureWALFormat.load(ProcedureWALFormat.java:103)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure2.store.wal.WALProcedureStore.load(WALProcedureStore.java:465)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure2.ProcedureExecutor.load(ProcedureExecutor.java:321)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure2.ProcedureExecutor.init(ProcedureExecutor.java:596)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.createProcedureExecutor(HMaster.java:1517)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.finishActiveMasterInitialization(HMaster.java:947)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.startActiveMasterManager(HMaster.java:2311)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.lambda$run$0(HMaster.java:587)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)