Reading metadata table throws NullPointerException from getLogRecordScanner

spark.read.format("hudi").load("s3a://<base_path>/.hoodie/metadata/").show  

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException   at org.apache.hudi.metadata.HoodieBackedTableMetadata.getLogRecordScanner(HoodieBackedTableMetadata.java:484)   at org.apache.hudi.HoodieMergeOnReadRDD$.scanLog(HoodieMergeOnReadRDD.scala:342)   at org.apache.hudi.HoodieMergeOnReadRDD$LogFileIterator.<init>(HoodieMergeOnReadRDD.scala:173)   at org.apache.hudi.HoodieMergeOnReadRDD$RecordMergingFileIterator.<init>(HoodieMergeOnReadRDD.scala:252)   at org.apache.hudi.HoodieMergeOnReadRDD.compute(HoodieMergeOnReadRDD.scala:101)   at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:373)   at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:337)   at org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.compute(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:52)   at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:373)   at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:337)   at org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.compute(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:52)   at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:373)   at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:337)   at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:90)   at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:131)   at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.$anonfun$run$3(Executor.scala:506)   at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.tryWithSafeFinally(Utils.scala:1462)   at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:509)   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)