Unable to run sonar scanner getting null pointer exception

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got this exception:
15:29:46.008 ERROR: Error during SonarQube Scanner execution
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.sonarsource.scm.git.GitScmProvider.revisionId(GitScmProvider.java:167)
at org.sonar.scanner.report.MetadataPublisher.addScmInformation(MetadataPublisher.java:126)
at org.sonar.scanner.report.MetadataPublisher.publish(MetadataPublisher.java:98)
at org.sonar.scanner.report.ReportPublisher.generateReportFile(ReportPublisher.java:150)
at org.sonar.scanner.report.ReportPublisher.execute(ReportPublisher.java:135)
at org.sonar.scanner.phases.PublishPhaseExecutor.executeOnRoot(PublishPhaseExecutor.java:49)
at org.sonar.scanner.phases.AbstractPhaseExecutor.execute(AbstractPhaseExecutor.java:79)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ModuleScanContainer.doAfterStart(ModuleScanContainer.java:164)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:136)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:122)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scan(ProjectScanContainer.java:319)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scanRecursively(ProjectScanContainer.java:314)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.doAfterStart(ProjectScanContainer.java:288)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:136)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:122)
at org.sonar.scanner.task.ScanTask.execute(ScanTask.java:48)
at org.sonar.scanner.task.TaskContainer.doAfterStart(TaskContainer.java:82)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:136)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:122)
at org.sonar.scanner.bootstrap.GlobalContainer.executeTask(GlobalContainer.java:131)
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.doExecuteTask(Batch.java:116)
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.execute(Batch.java:71)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.internal.batch.BatchIsolatedLauncher.execute(BatchIsolatedLauncher.java:46)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.internal.IsolatedLauncherProxy.invoke(IsolatedLauncherProxy.java:60)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy0.execute(Unknown Source)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.EmbeddedScanner.doExecute(EmbeddedScanner.java:171)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.EmbeddedScanner.execute(EmbeddedScanner.java:128)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.cli.Main.execute(Main.java:111)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.cli.Main.execute(Main.java:75)
at org.sonarsource.scanner.cli.Main.main(Main.java:61)

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I’m a Sonar customer, not an employee. That said, it will be very difficult to help with this error without at minimum the following information:

  • What version of Sonar Scanner CLI are you using?
  • What version of SonarQube server are you using?
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I am facing the same issue. Community Edition 7.3

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.sonarsource.scanner.maven</groupId>
            <artifactId>sonar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.7.0.1746</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>verify</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>sonar</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.22.2</version>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
            <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>0.8.4</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>default-prepare-agent</id>
                    <goals><goal>prepare-agent</goal></goals>
                </execution>
                <execution>
                    <id>default-report</id>
                    <phase>prepare-package</phase>
                    <goals><goal>report</goal></goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
        <!-- SONAR DEPENDENCIES END -->