From 76c308aa4beaeed6ff8f20afcaa2ca01f2afbfab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yana Stamcheva <yana@jitsi.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:23:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] temporary resolution of a NullPointerException

---
 .../contactlist/MetaContactListServiceImpl.java | 17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/net/java/sip/communicator/impl/contactlist/MetaContactListServiceImpl.java b/src/net/java/sip/communicator/impl/contactlist/MetaContactListServiceImpl.java
index 99e7fdc32..348327336 100644
--- a/src/net/java/sip/communicator/impl/contactlist/MetaContactListServiceImpl.java
+++ b/src/net/java/sip/communicator/impl/contactlist/MetaContactListServiceImpl.java
@@ -435,13 +435,16 @@ private void synchronizeOpSetWithLocalContactList(
     {
         ContactGroup rootProtoGroup = presenceOpSet
                 .getServerStoredContactListRoot();
-
-        logger.trace("subgroups: "
-                + rootProtoGroup.countSubgroups());
-        logger.trace("child contacts: "
-                + rootProtoGroup.countContacts());
-
-        addContactGroupToMetaGroup(rootProtoGroup, rootMetaGroup, true);
+        
+        if(rootProtoGroup != null){
+        	
+        	logger.trace("subgroups: "
+                    + rootProtoGroup.countSubgroups());
+            logger.trace("child contacts: "
+                    + rootProtoGroup.countContacts());
+
+            addContactGroupToMetaGroup(rootProtoGroup, rootMetaGroup, true);
+        }
 
         presenceOpSet
                 .addSubsciptionListener(new ContactListSubscriptionListener());