A customer has reported seeing the following error when EPS is trying to startup:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.icesoft.net.messaging.MessageServiceClient.getDefaultTopicName(MessageServiceClient.java:225)
at com.icesoft.net.messaging.MessageServiceClient.publish(MessageServiceClient.java:525)
at com.icesoft.net.messaging.QueueMessagePublisher$10.run(QueueMessagePublisher.java:185)
at com.icesoft.net.messaging.QueueMessagePublisher$2.run(QueueMessagePublisher.java:82)
at edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:442)
at edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:176)
at edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:102)
at edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:215)
at edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:665)
at edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:690)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

This looks similar to the issue reported in PUSH-250