Persistence Unit Deployments fail with NPE

Tests affected:
org.jboss.test.deployers.seam.test.SeamDvdExampleUnitTestCase
org.jboss.test.ejb3.ejbthree1597.unit.PersistenceUnitSettingsUnitTestCase
org.jboss.test.jpa.test.WebClassesEARJPAUnitTestCase
org.jboss.test.jpa.test.WebLibsEARJPAUnitTestCase

and the ejb30-persistence module of the EE5 TCK

2009-11-01 21:39:12,717 INFO [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] (RMI TCP Connection(4)-127.0.0.1) deploy, url=file:/work/TEST/Branch_5_x/testsuite/output/lib/test-jpa-webclasses.war
2009-11-01 21:39:13,190 INFO [org.jboss.jpa.deployment.PersistenceUnitDeployment] (RMI TCP Connection(4)-127.0.0.1) Starting persistence unit persistence.unit:unitName=#test
2009-11-01 21:39:13,194 DEBUG [org.jboss.jpa.impl.deployment.PersistenceUnitInfoImpl] (RMI TCP Connection(4)-127.0.0.1) Using class loader BaseClassLoader@101a3db

{vfszip:/work/TEST/Branch_5_x/testsuite/output/lib/test-jpa-webclasses.war/}

2009-11-01 21:39:13,199 DEBUG [org.jboss.jpa.impl.deployment.PersistenceUnitInfoImpl] (RMI TCP Connection(4)-127.0.0.1) Found persistence.xml file in EJB3 jar
2009-11-01 21:39:13,202 ERROR [org.jboss.kernel.plugins.dependency.AbstractKernelController] (RMI TCP Connection(4)-127.0.0.1) Error installing to Start: name=persistence.unit:unitName=#test state=Create
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jboss.jpa.impl.deployment.PersistenceUnitInfoImpl.convertToValidationMode(PersistenceUnitInfoImpl.java:158)
at org.jboss.jpa.impl.deployment.PersistenceUnitInfoImpl.<init>(PersistenceUnitInfoImpl.java:106)
at org.jboss.jpa.deployment.PersistenceUnitDeployment.start(PersistenceUnitDeployment.java:293)