Sqoop2: Client throws NPE when misconfigured for Kerberos

sqoop:000> show version --all
client version:
  Sqoop 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT source revision 423de5d515545df2ca535d5ac5e84a4e9db30ba0
  Compiled by abe on Mon Nov 17 12:49:17 PST 2014
Exception has occurred during processing command 
Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException Message: null
Stack trace:
         at  org.apache.sqoop.json.VersionBean (VersionBean.java:74) 
         at  org.apache.sqoop.client.request.VersionResourceRequest (VersionResourceRequest.java:31) 
         at  org.apache.sqoop.shell.ShowVersionFunction (ShowVersionFunction.java:112) 
         at  org.apache.sqoop.shell.ShowVersionFunction (ShowVersionFunction.java:65) 
         at  org.apache.sqoop.shell.SqoopFunction (SqoopFunction.java:51) 
         at  org.apache.sqoop.shell.SqoopCommand (SqoopCommand.java:127) 
         at  org.apache.sqoop.shell.SqoopCommand (SqoopCommand.java:103) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.Command$execute (null:-1) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray (CallSiteArray.java:42) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.Command$execute (null:-1) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.Shell (Shell.groovy:101) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.Groovysh (Groovysh.groovy:-1) 
         at  sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:-2) 
         at  sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) 
         at  sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) 
         at  java.lang.reflect.Method (Method.java:606) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod (CachedMethod.java:90) 
         at  groovy.lang.MetaMethod (MetaMethod.java:233) 
         at  groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl (MetaClassImpl.java:1054) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter (ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:128) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.Groovysh (Groovysh.groovy:173) 
         at  sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:-2) 
         at  sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) 
         at  sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) 
         at  java.lang.reflect.Method (Method.java:606) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaMethodSite$PogoCachedMethodSiteNoUnwrapNoCoerce (PogoMetaMethodSite.java:267) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaMethodSite (PogoMetaMethodSite.java:52) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite (AbstractCallSite.java:141) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.Groovysh (Groovysh.groovy:121) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.Shell (Shell.groovy:114) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.Shell$leftShift$0 (null:-1) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.ShellRunner (ShellRunner.groovy:88) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.InteractiveShellRunner (InteractiveShellRunner.groovy:-1) 
         at  sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:-2) 
         at  sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) 
         at  sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) 
         at  java.lang.reflect.Method (Method.java:606) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod (CachedMethod.java:90) 
         at  groovy.lang.MetaMethod (MetaMethod.java:233) 
         at  groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl (MetaClassImpl.java:1054) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter (ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:128) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter (ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:148) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.InteractiveShellRunner (InteractiveShellRunner.groovy:100) 
         at  sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:-2) 
         at  sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) 
         at  sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) 
         at  java.lang.reflect.Method (Method.java:606) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaMethodSite$PogoCachedMethodSiteNoUnwrapNoCoerce (PogoMetaMethodSite.java:267) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaMethodSite (PogoMetaMethodSite.java:52) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite (AbstractCallSite.java:137) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.ShellRunner (ShellRunner.groovy:57) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.InteractiveShellRunner (InteractiveShellRunner.groovy:-1) 
         at  sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:-2) 
         at  sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) 
         at  sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) 
         at  java.lang.reflect.Method (Method.java:606) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod (CachedMethod.java:90) 
         at  groovy.lang.MetaMethod (MetaMethod.java:233) 
         at  groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl (MetaClassImpl.java:1054) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter (ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:128) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter (ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:148) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.InteractiveShellRunner (InteractiveShellRunner.groovy:66) 
         at  java_lang_Runnable$run (null:-1) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray (CallSiteArray.java:42) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite (AbstractCallSite.java:108) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite (AbstractCallSite.java:112) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.Groovysh (Groovysh.groovy:463) 
         at  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.Groovysh (Groovysh.groovy:402) 
         at  org.apache.sqoop.shell.SqoopShell (SqoopShell.java:128)