Solved zPermissions failed to use flat-file-based strategy

(I would have opened this as a ticket, but my BukkitDev login is broken, so I was unable to, as said here: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/broken-bukkitdev-login.255770/#post-2424006 )

I have been using zPermissions for a month or two, after rolling over from bPermissions (which wasn't registering anything), and now zPermissions throws this error:

Code:java

[zPermissions] Failed to initialize (storage):
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.tyrannyofheaven.bukkit.zPermissions.dao.MemoryPermissionDao.loadPermissions(MemoryPermissionDao.java:414) ~[zPermissions-1.2a.jar:1.2]
at org.tyrannyofheaven.bukkit.zPermissions.dao.MemoryPermissionDao.load(MemoryPermissionDao.java:323) ~[zPermissions-1.2a.jar:1.2]
at org.tyrannyofheaven.bukkit.zPermissions.dao.MemoryPermissionDao.load(MemoryPermissionDao.java:255) ~[zPermissions-1.2a.jar:1.2]
at org.tyrannyofheaven.bukkit.zPermissions.storage.MemoryStorageStrategy.init(MemoryStorageStrategy.java:67) ~[zPermissions-1.2a.jar:1.2]
at org.tyrannyofheaven.bukkit.zPermissions.ZPermissionsPlugin.initializeStorageStrategy(ZPermissionsPlugin.java:494) [zPermissions-1.2a.jar:1.2]
at org.tyrannyofheaven.bukkit.zPermissions.ZPermissionsPlugin.onEnable(ZPermissionsPlugin.java:436) [zPermissions-1.2a.jar:1.2]
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.setEnabled(JavaPlugin.java:250) [craftbukkit-dev.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-14-g8f8716c-b3040jnks]
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.enablePlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:324) [craftbukkit-dev.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-14-g8f8716c-b3040jnks]
at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.enablePlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:404) [craftbukkit-dev.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-14-g8f8716c-b3040jnks]
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R2.CraftServer.loadPlugin(CraftServer.java:441) [craftbukkit-dev.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-14-g8f8716c-b3040jnks]
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R2.CraftServer.enablePlugins(CraftServer.java:375) [craftbukkit-dev.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-14-g8f8716c-b3040jnks]
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R2.CraftServer.<init>(CraftServer.java:313) [craftbukkit-dev.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-14-g8f8716c-b3040jnks]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.PlayerList.<init>(PlayerList.java:63) [craftbukkit-dev.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-14-g8f8716c-b3040jnks]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.DedicatedPlayerList.<init>(SourceFile:14) [craftbukkit-dev.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-14-g8f8716c-b3040jnks]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.DedicatedServer.init(DedicatedServer.java:126) [craftbukkit-dev.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-14-g8f8716c-b3040jnks]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:426) [craftbukkit-dev.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-14-g8f8716c-b3040jnks]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:618) [craftbukkit-dev.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-14-g8f8716c-b3040jnks]
 

The strange thing is, zPermissions only throws this error with my current data.yml. If I let zPermissions create a new one, it works perfectly fine.

 

So I finally got zPermissions to work by allowing it to create the data.yml, and then recreating the permissions.